Dolichopodidae Agassiz 1846

• Main Authors: Sinclair, Bradley J., Cumming, Jeffrey M.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2006
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Dolichopodidae; Canada; Sinclair; Aldrich; Greenfield; Fennoscandia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5059465; https://zenodo.org/record/5059465

Dolichopodidae s.str. The Dolichopodidae s.str . currently comprise 245 genera and some 6900 species worldwide (Grichanov 2006). Ulrich (2003) recognised this lineage at the rank of subfamily, because of the inclusion of the microphorids in the Dolichopodidae, and reduced the rank of the included conventional subfamilies to tribal level (without naming them). The group is very well defined on the basis of several synapomorphies associated with the antennae, mouthparts, wing, abdomen and male terminalia. The Dolichopodidae s.str . are most easily identified however, on the basis of their metallic or yellow body color, narrow wings, costa ending at M 1, Sc very short ending in vein R 1, cell dm emitting two veins, and cells bm and dm fused (Chvála 1983; Robinson & Vockeroth 1981). The following 15 subfamilies are currently recognized in the Dolichopodidae s.str .: Achalcinae, Babindellinae, Diaphorinae, Dolichopodinae, Enliniinae, Hydrophorinae, Medeterinae, Neurigoninae, Peloropeodinae, Plagioneurinae, Rhaphiinae, Sciapodinae, Stolidosomatinae, Sympycninae, and Xanthochlorinae (Bickel 1987; Pollet et al . 2004). A few authors have further subdivided certain dolichopodid subfamilies into tribes (e.g., Negrobov 1986 for Diaphorinae, Dolichopodinae, Hydrophorinae, Medeterinae, and Sympycninae; Naglis 2001, 2002a, b, 2003a,b for Neurigoninae). Brooks (2005b) has recently reviewed the various higher classification schemes that have been proposed for the Dolichopodidae s.str . : Published as part of Sinclair, Bradley J. & Cumming, Jeffrey M., 2006, The morphology, higher-level phylogeny and classification of the Empidoidea (Diptera), pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 1180 (1) on pages 1-172, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1180.1.1 : {"references": ["Grichanov, I. Y. (2006) All About Dolichopodidae (Diptera: Empidoidea). http: // www. fortunecity. com / greenfield / porton / 875 / Genera 3. htm. [Accessed on 21 February 2006].", "Ulrich, H. (2003) How recent are the Empidoidea of Baltic amber? Studia Dipterologica, 10, 321 - 327.", "Chvala, M. (1983) The Empidoidea (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. II. General Part. The families Hybotidae, Atelestidae and Microphoridae. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, 12, 1 - 279.", "Robinson, H. & Vockeroth, J. R. (1981) Dolichopodidae [Chapter] 48. In McAlpine, J. F., Peterson, B. V., Shewell, G. E., Teskey, H. J., Vockeroth, J. R. & Wood, D. M. (Coords.), Manual of Nearctic Diptera, Volume 1. Agriculture Canada Monograph, 27, 625 - 639.", "Bickel, D. J. (1987) Babindellinae, a new subfamily of Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from Australia, with a description of symmetry in the dipteran male postabdomen. Entomologica Scandinavica, 18, 97 - 113.", "Pollet, M., Brooks, S. E. & Cumming, J. M. (2004) Catalog of the Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of America north of Mexico. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 283, 1 - 114.", "Negrobov, O. P. (1986) On the system and phylogeny of flies of the fam. Dolichopodidae (Diptera). Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 65, 182 - 186 [English translation in Entomological Review (1987), 65, 16 - 20].", "Naglis, S. M. (2001) Revision of the Neotropical Neurigoninae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) I: Coeloglutus Aldrich, Neotonnoiria Robinson, and Paracoeloglutus gen. nov., with the definition of the tribe Coeloglutini stat. nov. Studia Dipterologica, 8, 189 - 206.", "Naglis, S. M. (2002 a) Revision of the Neotropical Neurigoninae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) II: Argentinia Parent, Dactylomyia Aldrich, Macrodactylomyia gen. nov., and Systenoides gen. nov., with the definition of a new tribe Dactylomyiini. Studia Dipterologica, 8 (2001), 475 - 504.", "Sinclair, B. J. (2003 a) Taxonomy, phylogeny and zoogeography of the subfamily Ceratomerinae of Australia (Diptera: Empidoidea). Records of the Australian Museum, 55, 1 - 44.", "Brooks, S. E. (2005 b) Higher classification and phylogeny of Dolichopodidae. http: // www. nadsdiptera. org / Doid / Doliclass / Doliclass. htm. [Accessed on 1 February 2006]."]}