Orthoceratium

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Orthoceratium
Orthoceratium lacustre (10.3897-zookeys.782.26329) Figure 2.jpg
Orthoceratium lacustre
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Hydrophorinae
Tribe: Hydrophorini
Genus: Orthoceratium
Schrank, 1803 [1]
Type species
Musca lacustris
Scopoli, 1763
Synonyms

Orthoceratium is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. [3] Only two species are included in the genus, Orthoceratium lacustre and Orthoceratium sabulosum . They are known from the West Palaearctic and Tanzania.

In 2018, researchers Marc Pollet and Andreas Stark found that the species O. sabulosum in northwestern Europe had been misidentified as O. lacustre for over 250 years. According to the researchers, these misidentifications can be explained by previous authors copying identification keys with misleading information, the omission by those authors to study the type specimens of O. sabulosum, and the loss of those of O. lacustre. [4]

Species

The following two species are included in the genus:

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References

  1. Schrank, F. von P. (1803). Fauna Boica. Durchgedachte Geschichte der in Baiern einheimischen und zahmen Thiere. Dritten und lezten Bandes, erst Abtheilung. Landshut: Philipp Krüll. pp. i–viii + 1–272.
  2. Mik, Josef (1878). "Dipterologische Untersuchungen". Jahresber. K. K. Akad. Gymnasium: 1–24, 1 pl.
  3. 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.
  4. Pollet, M.; Stark, A. (2018). "The quest for the identity of Orthoceratium lacustre (Scopoli, 1763) reveals centuries of misidentifications (Diptera, Dolichopodidae)". ZooKeys (782): 49–79. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.782.26329 . PMC   6160834 . PMID   30275719.
  5. Becker, T. (1907). "Die Ergebnisse meiner dipterologischen Fruhjahrsreise nach Algier und Tunis, 1906". Z. Syst. Hymenopt. Dipterol. 7: 33–61. Retrieved 13 July 2016.