Carvalhoa (fly)

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Carvalhoa
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Acroceridae
Subfamily: Acrocerinae
Genus: Carvalhoa
Koçak & Kemal, 2013 [1]
Type species
Sphaerops appendiculatus
Philippi, 1865 [2]
Synonyms [1]

Carvalhoa is a genus of small-headed flies in the family Acroceridae. The genus is endemic to Chile. [3] [4] It was originally known as Sphaerops, named by Rodolfo Amando Philippi in 1865. This name was found to be preoccupied by the reptile genus Sphaerops Gray, 1845, so it was renamed to Carvalhoa by Ahmet Ömer Koçak and Muhabbet Kemal in 2013. The genus is named after the Brazilian dipterist Claudio José Barros de Carvalho. [1]

Unlike the larvae of other acrocerids, which are endoparasitoids (internal parasitoids) of spiders, the larvae of Carvalhoa appendiculata can develop as ectoparasitoids (external parasitoids) on their host spiders. [4]

Species

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References

  1. 1 2 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.
  2. 1 2 3 Philippi, R. A. (1865). "Aufzählung der chilenischen Dipteren". Verhandl K.-k. Zool. Bot. Gesell. Wien. 15: 595–782.
  3. ↑ González, Christian R.; Elgueta, Mario; Ramirez, Francisco (2018). "A catalog of Acroceridae (Diptera) from Chile". Zootaxa . 4374 (3): 427–440. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4374.3.6. PMID   29689809.
  4. 1 2 3 Schlinger, Evert I.; Gillung, Jessica P.; Borkent, Christopher J. (2013). "New spider flies from the Neotropical Region (Diptera, Acroceridae) with a key to New World genera". ZooKeys (270): 59–93. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.270.4476 . PMC   3668421 . PMID   23730188.
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