Family PSEUDOPOMYZIDAE
Compiler and date details
December 2010 - Scott Ginn, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia
2007 - R. Johnson, data taken from Evenhuis, N.L. Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions (accessed 2007)
Introduction
Pseudopomyzidae is a small fly family, which at present has only one representative species described from Australia in the subgenus Dete. Undescribed species are known from southern Tasmania and south-western Australia. There are some unresolved taxonomic issues with this family, but it appears that there are less than twenty species worldwide. In some publications, species from this family are treated as part of the family Cypselosomatidae. Here the taxonomy follows McAlpine, 1994 with Pseudopomyzidae treated as a separate family. McAlpine, 1994 contains a key to the subgenera of Pseudopomyza.
Biology
Virtually nothing is known about the biology of the Australian fauna. In New South Wales, adults of Pseudopomyza (Dete) collessi have been observed on ferns near waterfalls at Wentworth Falls, and in deep shaded ravines near Mt Wilson.
General References
Mathis, W.N. 2008. Family Cypselosomatidae (incl. Pseudopomyzidae). In Evenhuis, N.L.(ed.) Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. (online version). http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/aocat/cypselosomatidae.html [Originally by W.N. Mathis, but updated by multiple authors]
McAlpine, D.K. 1994. A new Australian species of pseudopomyzid fly (Diptera: Nerioidea) and the subgenera of Pseudopomyza. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 114(4): 181-188 [Date published 27 May]