
%0 Journal Article
%A Norris, K. R. 
%T Establishment of a subfamily Aphyssurinae for the Australian genus <emph type="2">Aphyssura</emph> Hardy (Diptera : Calliphoridae), with a review of known forms and descriptions of new species
%J Invertebrate Systematics
%D 1999/08/30
%V 13
%N 4
%P 511-628
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/IT98007
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/IT98007 
%X The subfamily Aphyssurinae, herein established, comprises only the precinctively Australian genus Aphyssura Hardy. These flies are all small (overall length up to ca. 5 mm) and of fairly uniform structure. The subfamily and genus are characterised as follows: the long arista is sparsely plumose on the basal quarter of its third segment, and thence spiculate to the apex; the prosternum is sparsely bristled; some bristles (anterior presutural intraalar, immediately presutural intraalar, lateral scutellars and intrapostalar) are lacking; cell r 4+5 is closed or even has a short appendix; the calypteres are bare; the males have a relatively narrow frons, an uncleft fifth sternite armed with a down-turned subapical spine; the cerci are completely fused. The females often completely different from the males in coloration, and the dorsal sclerites of the ovipositor are greatly reduced; reproduction is by larviparity. The previously described species &#8211; A. minuta (Malloch), A. dubia (Walker) and A. pusilla (Macquart) &#8211; are characterised. The following new species are described: A. arenicola, A. attonita, A. banksi, A. contexta, A. crassigaster, A. cygnea, A. eyrei, A. halli, A. humei, A. ioannes, A. liepae, A. mongensis, A. narrogina, A. nigricans, A. rubida, A. rustica, A. southcotti, A. sturti, A. tanni, A. territorialis, A. therribriana, A. tonnoiri, A. ungarrana, and A. zentae. A key to species is given. Illustrations of diagnostic features of the male and female terminalia are given. 
