Dubius (fly)

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Dubius
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Diaphorinae
Genus: Dubius
Wei, 2012 [1]
Type species
Dubius curtus
Wei, 2012

Dubius is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, with seven species distributed in southern China and another five in the Neotropical realm. The genus name is from the Latin word dubius , referring to the variance of frons. The genus was first established by Wei Lian-Meng in 2012, including a group of species from the Neotropical realm previously placed in Chrysotus , as well as five newly described species from China. [1] According to some researchers, all of the Neotropical species should be kept in Chrysotus, as their transfer to Dubius was unwarranted. [2] [3]

Species

Chinese species:

Neotropical species (now transferred back to Chrysotus): [2] [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Wei, L. M. (2012). "The evolutionary significance on fr/fa ratio of Chrysotus Meigen (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Diaphorinae), with descriptions of one new genus and five new species". Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica. 37 (2): 611–622.
  2. 1 2 Capellari, R. S.; Amorim, D. de S. (2014). "New combinations and synonymies for Neotropical species of Diaphorinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Contributions to Entomology. 64 (2): 375–381. doi: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.64.2.375-381 .
  3. 1 2 Runyon, Justin B. (2020). "The Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of Montserrat, West Indies". ZooKeys (966): 57–151. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.966.55192 . PMC   7494662 . PMID   32982546.
  4. 1 2 Liu, Ruosi; Wang, Mengqing; Yang, Ding (2015). "Two New Species of Genus Dubius (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from China". Transactions of the American Entomological Society . 141 (1): 71–79. doi:10.3157/061.141.0107. JSTOR   43682020. S2CID   86122174.
  5. 1 2 3 Robinson, Harold (1975). "Bredin-Archbold-Smithsonian Biological Survey of Dominica. The Family Dolichopodidae with Some Related Antillean and Panamanian Species (Diptera)". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology . 185 (185): 1–141. doi: 10.5479/si.00810282.185 . hdl: 10088/5375 .
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