Kowmunginae

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Kowmunginae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Kowmunginae
Yang, Zhu, Wang & Zhang, 2006 [1]
Genera

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Kowmunginae is a subfamily of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It was proposed in the World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera) by Yang et al. (2006) to include two genera previously placed as incertae sedis within the family. [1] However, the validity of this new subfamily was later criticized by Sinclair et al. (2008). According to them, the subfamily's erection by Yang et al. (2006) was not justified by their phylogenetic analysis, and the genera included would have been better placed as incertae sedis until a later phylogenetic study determines their placement. [2] [3]

Genera

The subfamily contains two genera:

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References

  1. 1 2 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.
  2. ↑ Sinclair, Bradley J.; Brooks, Scott E.; Cumming, Jeffrey M. (2008). "A critical review of the world catalogs of Empidoidea (Insecta: Diptera) by Yang et al. (2006, 2007)" (PDF). Zootaxa . 1846: 61–68. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.1846.1.7 . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-19.
  3. ↑ Grichanov, Igor Ya. (2017). "Alphabetic list of generic and specific names of predatory flies of the epifamily Dolichopodoidae (Diptera). 2nd ed" (PDF). Plant Protection News, Supplements. St.Petersburg: All-Union Research Institute of Plant Protection (VISR) (23). doi: 10.5281/zenodo.884863 .
  4. ↑ Bickel, D.J. (1987). "Kowmungia (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), a new genus from Australia". Invertebrate Taxonomy. 1 (2): 147–154. doi:10.1071/IT9870147.
  5. ↑ Meuffels, H. J. G.; Grootaert, P. (1988). "Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from Papua New Guinea VIII. Phacaspis, a new genus incertae sedis from the mangrove" (PDF). Indo-Malayan Zoology. 5: 311–319. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
  6. ↑ Meuffels, H. J. G.; Grootaert, P. (2001). "Notes on marine dolichopodid flies from Thailand (Insecta: Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 49 (2): 339–353. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
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