Dactylonotus

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Dactylonotus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Diaphorinae
Tribe: Argyrini
Genus: Dactylonotus
Parent, 1934 [1]
Type species
Dactylonotus grandicornis
Parent, 1934 [1]

Dactylonotus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. Six of the species in the genus are found in southern Africa, though one species, Dactylonotus formosus , is found in New Zealand. The genus is recognised by its distinctive antennae, which have a finger-like projection on the pedicel (the second segment) that overlaps the top of the postpedicel (the first unit of the third segment, the flagellum). [2]

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Taxonomy

When first described, Dactylonotus was provisionally included in the subfamily Rhaphiinae and considered to be related to Syntormon . However, Syntormon would later be transferred to the subfamily Sympycninae, while Dactylonotus itself was later determined to be related to Argyra , and is currently classified instead in the subfamily Diaphorinae in the tribe Argyrini. [3] [4] A cladistic analysis of the subfamily Diaphorinae published in 2013 suggested that a group of genera consisting of Anepsiomyia , Argyra, Dactylomyia, Somillus and Symbolia would be monophyletic and possibly deserves subfamily rank. [2]

Species

Dactylonotus meuffelsi Grichanov, 1998 [3] is a synonym of D. rudebecki Vanschuytbroeck, 1960. [7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Parent, O. (1934). "Additions à la Faune Ethiopienne (Diptères: Dolichopodides)". Bulletin de la Société entomologique d'Égypte. (in French). 18: 112–138.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Grichanov, I. Ya. (2016). "Two new species of Dactylonotus Parent, 1934 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from South Africa and a key to Afrotropical species" (PDF). European Journal of Taxonomy (175): 1–9. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2016.175 .
  3. 1 2 3 Grichanov, I. Ya. (1998). "A new species of Dactylonotus Parent (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from South Africa". International Journal of Dipterological Research. 9: 27–29. Retrieved 22 December 2025.
  4. 1 2 Bickel, D. J. (1999). "Australian Sympycninae II: Syntormon Loew and Nothorhaphium, gen. nov., with a treatment of the Western Pacific fauna, and notes on the subfamily Rhaphiinae and Dactylonotus Parent (Diptera : Dolichopodidae)". Invertebrate Taxonomy. 13 (1): 179–206. doi:10.1071/IT97028.
  5. ↑ Parent, Octave (1939). "Diptères Dolichopodides de la region Ethiopienne". Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines. 32: 256–282.
  6. ↑ Loew, Hermann (1858). "Bidrag till kannedomen om Afrikas Diptera [part]". Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-akademiens forhandlingar. (1857) 14: 337–383. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  7. ↑ Grichanov, I. Ya. (2011). "An illustrated synopsis and keys to afrotropical genera of the epifamily Dolichopodoidae (Diptera: Empidoidea)". Priamus Supplement (24): 1–98.


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