Scorpiurus (fly)

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Scorpiurus
Female Scorpiurus aramoana photographed in situ on mudflats at Aramoana, New Zealand.jpg
Female Scorpiurus aramoana photographed in situ on mudflats at Aramoana
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Hydrophorinae
Tribe: Hydrophorini
Genus: Scorpiurus
Parent, 1933
Type species
Scorpiurus aenescens
Parent, 1933

Scorpiurus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, endemic to New Zealand. [1] Members of the genus are found in marine littoral habitats. [2]

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<i>Chrysotimus</i> Genus of flies

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Cymatopus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. Members of the genus are found on rocky coasts of the Indo-West Pacific.

Kowmungia is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is known from Australia.

<i>Lichtwardtia</i> Genus of flies

Lichtwardtia is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. In a phylogenetic analysis of the subfamily Dolichopodinae by Scott E. Brooks in 2005, Lichtwardtia is considered to be a synonym of Dolichopus, but other authors retain it as a valid genus. Before this, it was considered a possible subgenus of Pterostylus by Oleg Negrobov (1979).

<i>Medetera</i> Genus of flies

Medetera is a large genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It includes about 350 species worldwide. The adults are commonly found resting on vertical surfaces such as tree trunks, on which they have a characteristic vertical upright stance. Because of this stance, they are sometimes known as "woodpecker flies". Medetera adults are predators of soft-bodied arthropods, while the larvae are predators of bark beetle larvae.

<i>Paraclius</i> Genus of flies

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Phacaspis is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is known from Southeast Asia, Papua New Guinea and Micronesia. Flies in the genus are small, with metallic green coloring. They are marine, and are commonly found on mudflats in front of mangroves.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hydrophorinae</span> Subfamily of flies

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dolichopodinae</span> Subfamily of flies

Dolichopodinae is a subfamily of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.

Kowmunginae is a subfamily of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It was proposed in the World Catalog of Dolichopodidae by Yang et al. (2006) to include two genera previously placed as incertae sedis within the family. 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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peloropeodinae</span> Subfamily of flies

Peloropeodinae is a subfamily of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. In some classifications, the genera of the subfamily are included in Sympycninae. According to Germann et al. (2011), the subfamily is polyphyletic.

Allohercostomus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. The generic name is a combination of the Greek prefix allo- with the generic name Hercostomus. In Brooks (2005)'s phylogenetic analysis of the subfamily Dolichopodinae, Allohercostomus was hypothesized to be the most basal member of the subfamily based on a triangular depression present on the scutum in front of the scutellum, a plesiomorphy lost in other members of the subfamily.

Conchopus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is distributed in Japan, China, Taiwan, the Hawaiian Islands, and Wake Island. The species Conchopus borealis is also an introduced species in North America and South America. Members of the genus live exclusively in the intertidal zone of rocky shores. The genus is sometimes considered a synonym of Thambemyia, but is considered a valid genus by some authors.

<i>Scorpiurus aramoana</i> Species of fly

Scorpiurus aramoana is a species of fly in the family Dolichopodidae. It is endemic to New Zealand. The species was first discovered in December 2017 on the saltmarsh mudflats of Aramoana near Dunedin in the South Island of New Zealand, and later found further south in the Catlins.

References

  1. Masunaga, K. 2017: Saltmarsh flies of the genus Scorpiurus Parent from New Zealand (Insecta: Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Zootaxa, 4324(3): 581-591. doi : 10.11646/zootaxa.4324.3.11
  2. 1 2 Bickel, Daniel J. and Kerr, D. Steven (2018) Scorpiurus aramoana (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), a new species from New Zealand. Zootaxa, 4422 (1): 78-84. doi : 10.11646/zootaxa.4422.1.4
  3. Masunaga, Kazuhiro (2017). "Saltmarsh flies of the genus Scorpiurus Parent from New Zealand (Insecta: Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". Zootaxa. 4324 (3): 581–591.