Philopotinae

Philopotinae
Helle longirostris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Acroceridae
Subfamily:	Philopotinae Schiner, 1867 [1]
Genera
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Philopotinae is a subfamily of small-headed flies. They have an arched body shape, as well as enlarged postpronotal lobes that form a collar behind the head. Their larvae are endoparasites of araneomorph spiders in the subgroup Entelegynae. ^[2]

Genera

The subfamily includes twelve extant genera and four extinct: ^[2]

• Africaterphis Schlinger, 1968
• † Archaeterphis Hauser & Winterton, 2007 ^[3]
• † Burmophilopota Feng et al., 2024 ^[4]
• Dimacrocolus Schlinger, 1961
• † Eulonchiella Meunier, 1912
• Helle Osten Sacken, 1896 ^[5]
• † Hoffeinsomyia Gillung & Winterton, 2017 ^[6]
• Megalybus Philippi, 1865
• Neophilopota Schlinger in Schlinger, Gillung & Borkent, 2013 ^[7]
• Oligoneura Bigot, 1878
• Parahelle Schlinger, 1961
• Philopota Wiedemann, 1830
• † Prophilopota Hennig, 1966
• Quasi Gillung & Winterton, 2011 ^[8]
• Schlingeriella Gillung & Winterton, 2011 ^[8]
• Terphis Erichson, 1840
• Thyllis Erichson, 1840

References

1. Sabrosky, C.W. (1999). "Family-Group Names in Diptera" (PDF). Myia. 10: 1–360. (page 242)
2. Gillung, Jessica P.; Winterton, Shawn L. (2019). "Evolution of fossil and living spider flies based on morphological and molecular data (Diptera, Acroceridae)". Systematic Entomology . 44 (4): 820–841. Bibcode:2019SysEn..44..820G. doi: 10.1111/syen.12358 .
3. Hauser, Martin; Winterton, Shaun L. (2007). "A New Fossil Genus of Small-Headed Flies (Diptera: Acroceridae: Philopotinae) from Baltic Amber". Annals of the Entomological Society of America . 100 (2): 152–156. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2007)100[152:ANFGOS]2.0.CO;2.
4. Feng, Q.; Zhuang, J.; Shih, C.; Ren, D.; Wang, Y. (2024). "The oldest fossil record of Philopotinae (Diptera: Acroceridae) from the mid-Cretaceous amber of Northern Myanmar". Zootaxa. 5497 (3): 435–443. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5497.3.8. PMID   39647140.
5. Osten Sacken, C.R. (1896). "A new genus of Cyrtidae (Dipt.) from New Zealand". Entomologist's Monthly Magazine . 32: 16–18.
6. Gillung, Jessica P.; Winterton, Shaun L. (2017). "A review of fossil spider flies (Diptera: Acroceridae) with descriptions of new genera and species from Baltic Amber". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology . 16 (4): 325–350. doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1289566. S2CID   90493326.
7. Schlinger, Evert I.; Gillung, Jessica P.; Borkent, Christopher J. (2013). "New spider flies from the Neotropical Region (Diptera, Acroceridae) with a key to New World genera". ZooKeys (270): 59–93. Bibcode:2013ZooK..270...59S. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.270.4476 . PMC   3668421 . PMID   23730188.
8. Gillung, Jéssica P.; Winterton, Shaun L. (2011). "New genera of philopotine spider flies (Diptera, Acroceridae) with a key to living and fossil genera". ZooKeys (127): 15–27. Bibcode:2011ZooK..127...15G. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.127.1824 . PMC   3175128 . PMID   21998545.

External links

• Encyclopedia of Life entry