The hitchhiker’s guide to Australia: the 18,000-km-long journey of Alepia viatrix Jaume-Schinkel, Kvifte, Weele & Mengual, 2022 (Diptera, Psychodidae) discovered through citizen science

Santiago Jaume-Schinkel; Ximo Mengual; Andy G Howe; Erinn P. Fagan-Jeffries

doi:10.15560/19.4.589

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The hitchhiker’s guide to Australia: the 18,000-km-long journey of Alepia viatrix Jaume-Schinkel, Kvifte, Weele & Mengual, 2022 (Diptera, Psychodidae) discovered through citizen science

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The hitchhiker’s guide to Australia: the 18,000-km-long journey of Alepia viatrix Jaume-Schinkel, Kvifte, Weele & Mengual, 2022 (Diptera, Psychodidae) discovered through citizen science

Santiago Jaume-Schinkel, Ximo Mengual, Andy G Howe and Erinn P. Fagan-Jeffries

Check List, Vol.19(4), pp.589-597

2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/19.4.589

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Moth flies

introduced species

dark taxa

DNA barcoding

taxonomy

new distribution

new record

community science

school project

The Neotropical genus Alepia Enderlein, 1937 (Diptera, Psychodidae) is newly recorded in Australia. We present new geographical records for Alepia viatrix Jaume-Schinkel, Kvifte, Weele & Mengual, 2022, extending the range of this species by 18,000 km. We attribute these new Australian records to the likely unintentional introduction of A. viatrix through international bromeliad trade. This moth fly was found by school children working with insect taxonomists through an Australian citizen-science project, Insect Investigators. We describe and present for the first time high-resolution SEM pictures of the eggs of the genus Alepia.

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Title: The hitchhiker’s guide to Australia: the 18,000-km-long journey of Alepia viatrix Jaume-Schinkel, Kvifte, Weele & Mengual, 2022 (Diptera, Psychodidae) discovered through citizen science
Authors: Santiago Jaume-Schinkel (Corresponding Author) - Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig
Ximo Mengual (Author) - Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig
Andy G Howe (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Forest Industries Research Centre
Erinn P. Fagan-Jeffries (Author) - The University of Adelaide
Publication details: Check List, Vol.19(4), pp.589-597
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
Date published: 2023
DOI: 10.15560/19.4.589
ISSN: 1809-127X
Copyright note: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Forest Industries Research Centre; Forest Research Institute
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99748998002621
Output Type: Journal article

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