Chioneinae

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Chioneinae
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Erioptera flavata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Limoniidae
Subfamily: Chioneinae
Rondani, 1861
Tribes

Cladurini
Eriopterini
Gonomyiini
Molophilini

Synonyms

Eriopterinae

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Gnophomyia tristissima

The Chioneinae are a subfamily of limoniid crane flies.

This subfamily was known as Eriopterinae until 1992.

Systematics

This list is adapted from the "Catalogue of the Craneflies of the World (Diptera, Tipuloidea: Pediciidae, Limoniidae, Cylindrotomidae, Tipulidae)". Naturalis Biodiversity Center. (January 2007). However, tribe affiliation is taken from Fauna Europaea; thus genera that include no European species are given below. then refined from Savchenko, Oosterbroek & Stary [1]

Dicranoptycha Osten Sacken, 1860 and Lipsothrix Loew, 1873 were moved to subfamily Limoniinae.

References

  1. Savchenko, E.N.; Oosterbroek, P.; Stary, J. (1992). Soos, A.; Papp, L.; Oosterbroek, P. (eds.). Family Limoniidae in Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera (Print). Vol. 1. Budapest: Hungarian Hatural History Museum. pp. 179–182. ISBN   963-7093-10-9.