Microphorinae

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Microphorinae
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous–Recent
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Microphor holosericeus , female
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Microphorinae
Collin, 1960
Genera

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Microphorinae is a subfamily of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is part of an expanded concept of the family, Dolichopodidae sensu lato , though it was previously considered a family of its own. [1]

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Genera

The subfamily includes seven genera, two extant and five extinct: [2]

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References

  1. Sinclair, Bradley J.; Cumming, Jeffrey M. (2006). "The morphology, higher-level phylogeny and classification of the Empidoidea (Diptera)" (PDF). Zootaxa . 1180: 1–172. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1180.1.1. ISBN   1-877407-80-1 . Retrieved 20 December 2011.
  2. Shamshev, I. V.; Perkovsky, E. E. (2022). "A review of fossil taxa of Microphorinae (Diptera, Dolichopodidae sensu lato), with redescription of the Eocene genus Meghyperiella Meunier". Zootaxa. 5150 (3): 411–427. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5150.3.6. S2CID   249480881.
  3. Grimaldi, David A.; Cumming, Jeffrey Malcolm (1999). "Brachyceran Diptera in Cretaceous ambers and Mesozoic diversification of the Eremoneura" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (239): 1–124. hdl:2246/1583.
  4. Tang, Chufei; Shi, Chao; Wang, Shuo; Yang, Ding (2019). "The first report of Dolichopodidae from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar". Cretaceous Research . 104: Article 104179. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.07.009.