Biology:Apsilocephalidae

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Short description: Family of flies

Apsilocephalidae
Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent
male specimen of Apsilocephala, from Nevada, USA
Apsilocephalidae wing venation
Scientific classification e
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Nagatomi et al., 1991
Genera
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Apsilocephalidae is a family of flies in the superfamily Asiloidea. It was historically treated as a subfamily within Therevidae, but placed in a separate family in 1991, and subsequently recognized as more distantly related. The family contains three extant genera and at least five extinct genera described from the fossil record.

Genera

These six genera belong to the family Apsilocephalidae:

  • Apsilocephala Kröber, 1914[1][2][3][4]
  • Burmapsilocephala Gaimari & Mostovski, 2000 (Cenomanian, Burmese amber)[3]
  • Clesthentia White, 1915[2][3]
  • Clesthentiella Nagatomi, Saigusa, Nagatomi & Lyneborg, 1991[3]
  • Irwinimyia Zhang et al., 2018 (Cenomanian, Burmese amber)[5]
  • Kaurimyia Winterton & Irwin, 2008[2][3]
  • Kumaromyia Grimaldi & Hauser, 2011[3]
  • Myanmarpsilocephala Zhang et al., 2018 (Cenomanian, Burmese amber)[5]

The Burmese amber genus Kuhwahldyia described in 2019 is suggested to be a relative of the family.[6]

Therevoid clade

 Therevoid clade 

Apsilocephalidae

Evocoidae

Scenopinidae

Therevidae

References

  1. "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System". https://www.itis.gov/. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Browse Apsilocephalidae". http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/093776d0962531f4189fae3dad588a00. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 "Apsilocephalidae". https://www.gbif.org/species/3331. 
  4. "Apsilocephalidae Family Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/179016. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Zhang, Q.; Li, X.; Xu, B.; Zhu, Y.; Lu, R.; Wang, B.; Yeates, D. K. (2018). "Two new genera of Apsilocephalidae from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber". Cretaceous Research 84: 525–532. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2017.11.026. 
  6. Mónica M. Solórzano Kraemer; Jeffrey M. Cumming (2019). "New genera of brachyceran flies (Diptera: Xylomyidae and Apsilocephalidae sensu auctorum) from mid-Cretaceous Hukawng Valley Burmese amber". Palaeoentomology 2 (3): 251–261. doi:10.11646/palaeoentomology.2.3.10. 
  • Nagatomi, A.; Saigusa, Toyohei; Nagatomi, Hisako & Lyneborg, L. (1991): Apsilocephalidae, a new family of orthorrhaphous Brachycera (Insecta, Diptera). Zoological Science (Tokyo) 8(3): 579-591.
  • Nagatomi, A.; Saigusa, T.; Nagatomi, H. & Lyneborg, L.. 1991. The systematic position of the Apsilocephalidae, Rhagionempididae, Protempididae, Hilarimorphidae, Vermileonidae and some genera of Bombyliidae (Insecta, Diptera). Zool. Science 8:593-607.
  • The genitalia of the Apsilocephalidae (Diptera). Japanese Journal of Entomology. 59. 409-423.

Wikidata ☰ Q1935904 entry