Acropsilus

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Acropsilus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: incertae sedis
Genus: Acropsilus
Mik, 1878 [1]
Type species
Chrysotus niger
Loew, 1869 [2]
Synonyms [3]

Acropsilus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. [6] It is unplaced in the family, [7] having been placed variously in subfamilies such as Sympycninae or Peloropeodinae. It is superficially similar to the Medeterinae. [8]

Species

The genus contains 30 species: [8] [9] [10]

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References

  1. ↑ Mik, Josef (1878). "Dipterologische Untersuchungen". Jahresber. K. K. Akad. Gymnasium: 1–24, 1 pl.
  2. 1 2 Loew, Hermann (1869). Beschreibung europäischer Dipteren. Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insecten, von Johann Wilhelm Meigen. Achter Theil oder zweiter Supplementband. Vol. 1. Halle: H. W. Schmidt. pp. xvi + 310 + [2] pp.
  3. 1 2 Grichanov, Igor Ya.; Mostovski, Mike B. (2009). "Long-legged flies (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) in the collection of the Natal Museum: A review of C.H. Curran's types, new synonyms, and new combinations". Zootaxa . 2194: 37–53. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2194.1.3.
  4. 1 2 Curran, Charles Howard (1927). "Records and descriptions of South African Diptera with notes on two Wiedemann types". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 12: 181–185.
  5. 1 2 Zizhong, Li; Daochao, Jin (2006). Insects from Fanjingshan Landscape (in Chinese). Guiyang: Guizhou Science and Technology Publishing House. p. 481.
  6. ↑ Yang, D.; Zhu, Y.; Wang, M.; Zhang, L. (2006). World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera). Beijing: China Agricultural University Press. pp. 1–704. ISBN   9787811171020.
  7. ↑ Ulrich, J. (1980). "Zur systematischen Gliederung der Dolichopodiden (Diptera)". Bonner zoologische Beiträge . 31 (3–4): 385–402.
  8. 1 2 Bickel, D. J. (1998). "Australian, Melanesian and Micronesian Acropsilus Mik (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 141 (1): 1–17. doi:10.1163/22119434-99900001.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 Grichanov, I. Ya. (1998). "Afrotropical species of the genus Acropsilus Mik (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". Dipterological Research. 9 (3): 183–190.
  10. ↑ Wang, Mengqing; Yang, Ding; Grootaert, Patrick (2007). "Revision of the species of Acropsilus Mik (Diptera, Dolichopodidae) from China". Biologia. 62 (1): 88–94. doi:10.2478/s11756-007-0015-6. S2CID   1085290.
  11. 1 2 Parent, O. (1937). "Diptères Dolichopodides nouveaux du Congo belge et du Maroc". Bulletin du Musee d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique. 13 (18): 1–19.
  12. ↑ Couturier, Guy (1977). "Les Diptères Doiichepodidae de Côte d'Ivoire : Description de trois nouvelles espèce" (PDF). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France . 82 (9–11): 220–224. doi:10.3406/bsef.1977.21612 . Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  13. ↑ Lamb, C.G (1922). "The Percy Sladen Trust expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under leadership of Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner M.A. Vol.VII. No.VIII-Diptera: Asilidae, Scenopinidae, Dolichopodidae, Pipunculidae, Syrphidae". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology. 2. 18: 361–416. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1922.tb00554.x.
  14. ↑ Negrobov, O. V. (1984). "The genera of the family Dolichopodidae (diptera) new for the fauna of Palaearctic and USSR". Zoologicheskii Zhurnal . 63 (7): 1111–1115.


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