Acrocerinae

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Acrocerinae
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Acrocera orbiculus , Italy
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Acroceridae
Subfamily: Acrocerinae
Leach, 1815
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Acrocerinae is a subfamily of small-headed flies in the family Acroceridae. Their larvae are endoparasites of araneomorph spiders, with the exception of Carvalhoa appendiculata which can develop as ectoparasitoids on their host spiders. [1] Traditionally, the subfamily included the genera now placed in Cyrtinae and Ogcodinae, but the subfamily in this sense was found to be polyphyletic and was split up in 2019. [1] [2]

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Systematics

The subfamily includes two extant genera and one extinct: [1]

The extinct fly genus † Burmacyrtus Grimaldi & Hauser in Grimaldi, Arillo, Cumming & Hauser, 2011 [4] was originally placed in this subfamily as well, but according to Gillung & Winterton (2017) it is not considered an acrocerid. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Gillung, Jessica P.; Winterton, Shawn L. (2019). "Evolution of fossil and living spider flies based on morphological and molecular data (Diptera, Acroceridae)". Systematic Entomology . 44 (4): 820–841. Bibcode:2019SysEn..44..820G. doi: 10.1111/syen.12358 .
  2. Stubbs, A.; Drake, M. (2014). British Soldierflies and their Allies (2 ed.). Wokingham: British Entomological and Natural History Society. p. 528. ISBN   9781899935079.
  3. Koçak, A. Ö.; Kemal, M. (2013). "A nomenclatural note in the family Acroceridae (Diptera)". Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara Miscellaneous Papers (159): 3–4.
  4. 1 2 Grimaldi, DA; Arillo, A; Cumming, JM; Hauser, M (2011). "Brachyceran Diptera (Insecta) in Cretaceous ambers, Part IV, Significant New Orthorrhaphous Taxa". ZooKeys (148): 293–332. Bibcode:2011ZooK..148..293G. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.148.1809 . PMC   3264415 . PMID   22287902.
  5. Gillung, Jessica P.; Winterton, Shaun L. (2017). "A review of fossil spider flies (Diptera: Acroceridae) with descriptions of new genera and species from Baltic Amber". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology . 16 (4): 325–350. doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1289566. S2CID   90493326.

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