| Achradocera | |
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| Achradocera barbata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Dolichopodidae |
| Subfamily: | Diaphorinae |
| Genus: | Achradocera Becker, 1922 |
| Type species | |
| Achradocera femoralis Becker, 1922 | |
Achradocera is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is distributed in the Nearctic and Neotropical realms as well as in Polynesia. Several Afrotropical species were also placed in the genus, but in 2018 they were transferred to Chrysotus. Achradocera was formerly considered a subgenus of Chrysotus, but was restored as a separate genus by Harold E. Robinson (1975).
Adult males of Achradocera can be recognised by several secondary sex characteristics: their antennae have the first flagellomere elongated and swollen at the base with a narrow tip, and they have rows of thickened setae underneath the eyes.
Species
- Achradocera apicalis (Aldrich, 1896) – West Indies, Mexico, Ecuador, Chile, French Polynesia, Tonga
- Achradocera arcuata (Van Duzee, 1924) – western United States, Mexico, Hawaii
- Achradocera barbata (Loew, 1861) – North America
- Achradocera chilensis (Van Duzee, 1930) – Chile, Argentina
- Achradocera contracta (Van Duzee, 1929) – Guatemala
- Achradocera edwardsi (Van Duzee, 1930) – Chile
- Achradocera excavata (Van Duzee, 1924) – Virgin Islands
- Achradocera femoralis Becker, 1922 – Paraguay, Trinidad, Colombia
- Achradocera insignis Parent, 1933 – Argentina, Trinidad
- Achradocera longiseta Parent, 1933 – Bolivia, Argentina
- Achradocera meridionalis Becker, 1922 – Costa Rica
- Achradocera shannoni (Van Duzee, 1930) – Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, Hawaii
- Achradocera tuberculata (Van Duzee, 1931) – Bolivia
The following species are synonyms or have been moved to other genera:
- Achradocera africana Parent, 1934: now Chrysotus africanus (Parent, 1934)
- Achradocera angustifacies Becker, 1922: synonym of A. apicalis (Aldrich, 1896)
- Achradocera ealensis Parent, 1936: now Chrysotus ealensis (Parent, 1936)
- Achradocera insularis Lamb, 1933: now Chrysotus insularis (Lamb, 1933)
- Achradocera insularis Parent, 1933 (homonym of above): synonym of Chrysotus insularis (Lamb, 1933)
- Achradocera rutshuruensis Vanschuytbroeck, 1951: now Chrysotus rutshuruensis (Vanschuytbroeck, 1951)
- Achradocera wulfi Parent, 1936: now Chrysotus wulfi (Parent, 1936)
References
- ^ Becker, T. (1922). "Dipterologischen Studien. Dolichopodidae. B. Nearktische und Neotropische Regions". Abhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien (in German). 13 (1): 207–209.
- 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.
- ^ Bickel, Daniel J. (2000). "New World Achradocera in Hawai'i, Tonga, and French Polynesia, with discussion of the genus (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. 64: 14–20.
- ^ Grichanov, Igor Ya. (2018). "An annotated catalogue of afrotropical Dolichopodoidae (Diptera)". Plant Protection News, Supplements (25). St.Petersburg: All-Union Research Institute of Plant Protection (VISR). doi:10.5281/zenodo.1187006.
- ^ Runyon, Justin B. (2020). "The Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of Montserrat, West Indies". ZooKeys (966): 57–151. doi:10.3897/zookeys.966.55192. PMC 7494662. PMID 32982546.
- Parent, O. (1934). "Additions a la faune ethiopienne (Dipteres: Dolichopodides)". Bulletin de la Société entomologique d'Égypte. 18: 112–138.
- Vanschuytbroeck, P. (1951). "Dolichopodidae. (Diptera Brachycera Orthorrhapha)". Exploration du Parc National Albert. Mission G. F. De Witte (1933-1935). Fasc. 74: 1–153.
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