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Genus of flies

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
Type species
Hercostomus (Hercostomus) zhongdianus
Yang, 1998

Parahercostomus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It includes four species known only from China. 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. 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.

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. (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.
Taxon identifiers
Parahercostomus


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