Parahercostomus

Parahercostomus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Dolichopodinae
Genus: Parahercostomus
Yang, Saigusa & Masunaga, 2001[1]
Type species
Hercostomus (Hercostomus) zhongdianus
Yang, 1998[2]

Parahercostomus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It includes four species known only from China.[3] Members of the genus are metallic green in color and large in size, with a body length of 4.5–5.3 mm and a wing length of 5.2–7.0 mm. The generic name is a combination of the prefix para- (from the Ancient Greek παρά, pará, meaning "near" or "beside") with the generic name Hercostomus.[1] According to Brooks (2005)'s phylogenetic analysis of the subfamily Dolichopodinae, Parahercostomus appears to be closely related to Grichanov (1999)'s Afrotropical species group 1 in the genus Hercostomus, which was later transferred to the genus Afrohercostomus.[4]

Species

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Yang, Ding; Saigusa, Toyohei; Masunaga, Kazuhiro (2001). "Two new genera and four new species of Dolichopodinae from China and Nepal (Diptera: :Empidoidea: Dolichopodidae)". Entomological Science. 4 (2): 175–184. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 February 2018.
  2. ^ a b Yang, D. (1998). "New and little known species of Dolichopodidae from China (III)" (PDF). Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique. Entomologie. 68: 177–183.
  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. ^ Brooks, Scott E. (2005). "Systematics and phylogeny of Dolichopodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". Zootaxa. 857: 1–158. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.857.1.1.
  5. ^ Hollis, D. (1964). "On the Diptera of Nepal (Stratiomyidae, Therevidae and Dolichopodidae)". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology. 15: 83–116. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.20536.


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