Hangingfly
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| Hangingfly | |
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| Hylobittacus apicalis, Michigan, USA | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mecoptera |
| Infraorder: | Raptipeda |
| Family: | Bittacidae Handlirsch, 1906 |
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| [[|Diversity]] | |
| 16 genera, ca. 170 species | |
Bittacidae is a family of scorpionflies commonly called Hangingflies or hanging scorpionflies.
The genus Bittacus, comprising approximately 75 percent of all species within the family, occurs worldwide. Other genera are mostly confined to South America or Australia. Members of this family may be confused with crane flies, in the order Diptera, but can be distinguished by their two pairs of wings and lack of haltere.
[edit] Genera
This list is based on The World Checklist of extant Mecoptera Species.[1] Presumably complete up to 1997, it is updated as needed. The number of species in each genus are in parentheses. A number of extinct(†) genera have been described from the fossil record.
- Anabittacus (1) Kimmins, 1929 (Chile)
- Anomalobittacus (1) Kimmins, 1928 (South Africa)
- Apterobittacus (1) MacLachlan, 1893 (Southern USA)
- Austrobittacus (1) Riek, 1954 (Australia)
- Bittacus (124) Latreille, 1805 (worldwide)
- Edriobittacus (1) Byers, 1974 (Australia)
- †Formosibittacus (1) Li, Ren & Shih, 2008 (Middle Jurassic, China)[2]
- Harpobittacus (12) Gerstaecker, 1885 (Australia)
- Hylobittacus (1) Byers, 1979 (USA, Mexico)
- Issikiella (5) Byers, 1972 (South America)
- †Jurahylobittacus (1) Li, Ren & Shih, 2008 (Middle Jurassic, China)[2]
- Kalobittacus (8) Esben-Petersen, 1914 (Central America)
- †Mongolbittacus (1) Petrulevicius, Huang & Ren, 2007[3]
- Nannobittacus (4) Esben-Petersen, 1927 (Brazil to Panama)
- Neobittacus (2) Esben-Petersen, 1914 (Brazil)
- Orobittacus Villegas & Byers, 1982 (California)
- Pazius (8) Navás, 1913 (Brazil to Panama)
- Symbittacus Byers, 1986 (Australia)
- Tytthobittacus Smithers, 1973 (Australia)
[edit] References
- ^ Bittacidae
- ^ a b Li, Y-L.; Ren, D.; Shih, C-K (2008). "Two Middle Jurassic hanging-flies (Insecta: Mecoptera: Bittacidae) from Northeast China". Zootaxa 1929: 38–46. ISSN 1175-5334.
- ^ Petrulevicius, J. F.; Huang, D-Y.; Ren, D. (2007). "A new hangingfly (Insecta: Mecoptera: Bittacidae) from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China". African Invertebrates 48 (1): 145–152. http://fossilinsects.net/pdfs/Lpetrul.145-152.pdf.
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