typification

Type series only. Holotype ♂, New Zealand, TH. “NEW ZEALAND: / Three Kings Islands, / Great Island / Castaway Camp, / xi. 1970, DSIR Exped. ; HOLOTYPE ♂/ Fannia triregum / Domínguez & Pont” (NZAC). Paratypes 7♂ 4♀: Three Kings. TH. data as for holotype, 1♂ 2♀ (NZAC); Three Kings Islands, Great Island, Castaway Camp, at light, Nov 1970, N.Z. Ent.Div. Expedition, J. McBurney, 2♂ (BMNH & NZAC); same data, at light, Leptospermum ericoides and Coprosma, 2♂ 2♀ (NZAC). South Island. SD. Stephens Island, Cook Strait, 1 Dec 1953, B. A Holloway, 1♂ (LUNZ); the same, 15–19 Dec 1954, G. Ramsay, 1♂ (LUNZ).

Domínguez, M.C.; Pont, A.C. 2014: Fanniidae (Insecta: Diptera). Fauna of New Zealand 71: 1-91.

Etymology

The species name is formed from the Latin tres (“three”, modified to tri- in compounds) and rex (“king”, genitive plural regum), and is a noun in apposition referring to the Three Kings Islands where the holotype was collected.

Domínguez, M.C.; Pont, A.C. 2014: Fanniidae (Insecta: Diptera). Fauna of New Zealand 71: 1-91.