Type species: Tambinia languida Stål 1859, by original designation (Sri Lanka)

Synonyms: Ossa Motschulsky 1863: 106; type species Ossa dimidiata Motschulsky, by monotypy, synonymised by Melichar 1914: 83.

Known species: An oriental genus of some 17 species distributed from India and Sri Lanka to New Guinea and Japan. Only one species, Tambinia venusta Kirkaldy, is known from Australia. It is restricted to parts of North Queensland.

Comments: The Australian species, Tambinia venusta Kirkaldy, is a delicate species usually with some reddish markings on the head and clavus. Kirkaldy (1906) described two species (as Ossa) from Queensland which he differentiated on the basis of the arrangements of the red flecks on the head. The two species were synonymised by Jacobi (1928: 24) along with T. stupida Melichar (1914: 86) from New Guinea.

Document 556, submitted 24 August 2001
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