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Genus of flies

Allohercostomus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Dolichopodinae
Genus: Allohercostomus
Yang, Saigusa & Masunaga, 2001
Type species
Hercostomus (Hercostomus) rotundatus
Yang & Saigusa, 1999

Allohercostomus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It includes three species from China and Nepal. Members of the genus are metallic green in color and are small in size, with a body length of 2.5–3.2 mm and a wing length of 2.8–3.4 mm. The generic name is a combination of the prefix allo- (from the Ancient Greek ἄλλος, állos, meaning "other") 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. It can also be distinguished from other members of Dolichopodinae by features such as the bottoms of its eyes being contiguous.

Species

References

  1. ^ 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. ^ Yang, D.; Saigusa, T. (1999). "New and little known species of Dolichopodidae from China (VI): Diptera from Emei Mountain (1)" (PDF). Bulletin de l'Institut royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique. Entomologie. 69: 233–250.
  3. ^ Brooks, Scott E. (2005). "Systematics and phylogeny of Dolichopodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". Zootaxa. 857: 1–158. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.857.1.1.
  4. 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.
Taxon identifiers
Allohercostomus


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