Rhinophorinae
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Rhinophoridae is a family of flies (Diptera). They are found in all zoogeographic regions except Australasia and Oceania but mainly in the Palaearctic and Afrotropical regions.
They are small slender black bristly flies phylogenetically close to Tachinidae although some authors consider them a sister group of Calliphoridae. The larvae are mostly parasitoids of woodlice, beetles, spiders, and other arthropods, and occasionally snails.
By 2014 there were about 23 genera in the family with a total of about 150 species.[1] More are being described continually.[2]
Genera include:[3]
- Acompomintho Villeneuve, 1927[2]
- Alvamaja Rognes, 2010[4]
- Axinia Colless 1994[5]
- Azaisia
- Bezzimyia Townsend, 1919
- Bixinia[2]
- Macrotarsina
- Melanophora Meigen, 1803
- Oplisa
- Paykullia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
- Phyto Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
- Rhinodonia[2]
- Rhinomorinia
- Rhinopeza[2]
- Rhinophora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
- Shannoniella
- Stevenia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
- Styloneuria Brauer & von Bergenstamm, 1891
- Tricogena Róndani, 1856
- Tromodesia
- Trypetidomima[1]
References
- ^ a b Nihei, S. S. and M. R. de Andrade. (2014). Revision of Trypetidomima (Diptera: Rhinophoridae) with description of a new Brazilian species. Florida Entomologist 97(2) 724-33.
- ^ a b c d e Cerretti, P., et al. (2014). Remarkable Rhinophoridae in a growing generic genealogy (Diptera: Calyptratae, Oestroidea). Systematic Entomology 39(4) 660–90.
- ^ Rhinophoridae. Fauna Europaea.
- ^ Rognes, Knut (2010). "Alvamaja chlorometallica gen. n., sp. n. from Europe - the first metallic Rhinophoridae (Diptera)" (PDF). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 153. Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging: 3–13. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- ^ Colless, D. H. "A new family of muscoid Diptera from Australasia, with sixteen new species in four new genera (Diptera: Axiniidae)". Invertebrate Taxonomy. 10. CSIRO Publishing: 471–534.
External links
- L. Watson and M. J. Dallwitz (2008-11-25). "Rhinophoridae". British Insects: the Families of Diptera.
Further reading
- Crosskey, R. W. (1977). A review of the Rhinophoridae (Diptera) and a revision of the Afrotropical species. Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. Ent. 36(1) 66 pp.
- Herting, B. 1961. Rhinophorinae. In: Lindner E. (ed.), Die Fliegen der palaearktischen Region, IX, 64e. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart.
- Seguy, E. 1928. Etudes sur le mouches parasites 2 - Ccalliphorides. Calliphorines (suite), Sarcophaginae et Rhinophorinae de l'Europe occidentale et meridionale.Recherches sur la morphologie et la distribution geographique des Dipteres a larves parasites. Encyclopédie Entomologique, 9. Lechevalier, Paris.
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