Microphorinae

Microphorinae Temporal range: Early Cretaceous–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Microphor holosericeus , female
Scientific classification
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 subfamily of Empididae or a family of its own. ^[1]

Genera

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

• † Avenaphora Grimaldi & Cumming, 1999 ^[3] – Early Cretaceous
• † Curvus Kaddumi, 2005 – Jordanian amber, Albian
• † Meghyperiella Meunier, 1908 – Baltic amber and Rovno amber, Eocene
• Microphor Macquart, 1827
• † Microphorites Hennig, 1971 – Early Cretaceous-Eocene
• † Pristinmicrophor Tang, Shi, Wang & Yang, 2019 ^[4] – Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
• Schistostoma Becker, 1902

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 104179. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.07.009.

External links

• Data related to Microphorinae at Wikispecies