Philopotinae
Subfamily of flies
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]
Dimacrocolus Schlinger, 1961 †Eulonchiella Meunier, 1912
Helle Osten Sacken , 1896[ 4] †Hoffeinsomyia Gillung & Winterton, 2017 [ 5]
Megalybus Philippi , 1865Neophilopota Schlinger in Schlinger, Gillung & Borkent, 2013 [ 6] Oligoneura Bigot , 1878Parahelle Schlinger, 1961 Philopota Wiedemann , 1830†Prophilopota Hennig , 1966
Quasi Gillung & Winterton, 2011 [ 7] Schlingeriella Gillung & Winterton, 2011 [ 7] Terphis Erichson , 1840Thyllis Erichson , 1840
References
^ Sabrosky, C.W. (1999). "Family-Group Names in Diptera" (PDF) . Myia . 10 : 1– 360. ^ a b 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 ^ 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 . ^ Osten Sacken, C.R. (1896). "A new genus of Cyrtidae (Dipt.) from New Zealand" . Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 32 : 16– 18. ^ 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 . ^ 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 59– 93. Bibcode :2013ZooK..270...59S . doi :10.3897/zookeys.270.4476 PMC 3668421 PMID 23730188 . ^ a b Gillung, Jéssica P.; Winterton, Shaun L. (2011). "New genera of philopotine spider flies (Diptera, Acroceridae) with a key to living and fossil genera" . ZooKeys 15– 27. Bibcode :2011ZooK..127...15G . doi :10.3897/zookeys.127.1824 PMC 3175128 PMID 21998545 .
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