Jump to content

Pseudohercostomus

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pseudohercostomus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: incertae sedis
Genus: Pseudohercostomus
Stackelberg, 1931[1]
Type species
Pseudohercostomus echinatus

Pseudohercostomus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is distributed in the Oriental and Afrotropical realms as well as Chile.

Historically, the genus has generally been placed in the subfamily Dolichopodinae. In 2005, based on a cladistic analysis of the subfamily, Scott E. Brooks excluded Pseudohercostomus from the Dolichopodinae. The systematic position of the genus is still unclear, though a possible relationship with the New World genus Keirosoma has been suggested.[2]

Species

[edit]

The genus contains six species:[3][4]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Stackelberg, A. A. (1931). "Dolichopodidae der Deutschen Limnologischen Sunda-Expedition". Arch Hydrobiol Suppl Bd Tropische Binnengewasser(Suppl.). 8: 771–782.
  2. ^ Brooks, Scott E. (2005). "Systematics and phylogeny of Dolichopodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 857: 1–158. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.857.1.1.
  3. ^ Grootaert, Patrick; Van de Velde, Isabella (2021). "Understanding the tangled taxonomy of the genus Pseudohercostomus Stackelberg, 1931 (Insecta: Diptera: Dolichopodidae) with description of new species from Singapore and DR Congo" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 69: 324–335. doi:10.26107/RBZ-2021-0055.
  4. ^ Grichanov, I.Y. (2023). "A New Species of Hercostomus Loew, 1857 (Diptera, Dolichopodidae) from India with Some Nomenclatural Notes". Entomological Review. 103 (6) (published 15 February 2024): 684–691. doi:10.1134/S001387382306009X.
  5. ^ Becker, T. (1922). "Dipterologische Studien: Dolichopodidae der Indo-Australischen Region". Capita Zoologica. 1 (4): 1–247.
  6. ^ Yang, D.; Grootaert, P. (1999). "Dolichopodidae (Diptera: Empidoidea) from Xishuangbanna (China, Yunnan province): the Dolichopodinae and the genus Chaetogonopteron (I)" (PDF). Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique. Entomologie. 69: 251–277.