A taxonomic revision of the Australian Conopidae is presented. Nineteen genera in four subfamilies are recognised. The Stylogasterinae are represented by the cosmopolitan genus Stylogaster Macquart and the Myopinae by Myopa Fabricius and Thecophora Rondani. A monotypic genus, Notoconops gen. nov., is described and placed in a new subfamily, Notoconopinae. The remaining fifteen Australian genera...

Descriptions of the following 23 species Macrotomoderus Pic, 1901 new to science, from continental China, are provided as an addition recently published review genus China and Taiwan (Telnov 2018): M. angelinii, belousovi, bicrispus, boops, bordonii, dali, daxiangling, femoridens, hajeki, hartmanni, hengduan, imitator, kabaki, korolevi, lapidarius, muli, palaung, similis, tenuis, transitans, tr...

The deep sea is the largest ecosystem on Earth. Recent exploration has revealed that it supports a highly diverse and endemic benthic invertebrate fauna, yet the evolutionary processes that generate this remarkable species richness are virtually unknown. Environmental heterogeneity, topographic complexity, and morphological divergence all tend to decrease with depth, suggesting that the potenti...