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| male specimen of Apsilocephala, from Nevada, USA | |
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| Apsilocephalidae wing venation | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Superfamily: | Asiloidea |
| Family: | Apsilocephalidae Nagatomi et al., 1991 |
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Apsilocephalidae is a family of flies in the superfamily Asiloidea. It was historically treated as a subfamily within Therevidae, but placed in a separate family in 1991, and subsequently recognized as more distantly related. The family contains three extant genera and at least five extinct genera described from the fossil record.
Genera
These six genera belong to the family Apsilocephalidae:
- Apsilocephala Kröber, 1914[1][2][3][4]
- †Burmapsilocephala Gaimari & Mostovski, 2000 (Cenomanian, Burmese amber)[3]
- Clesthentia White, 1915[2][3]
- Clesthentiella Nagatomi, Saigusa, Nagatomi & Lyneborg, 1991[3]
- †Irwinimyia Zhang et al., 2018 (Cenomanian, Burmese amber)[5]
- †Kaurimyia Winterton & Irwin, 2008[2][3]
- †Kumaromyia Grimaldi & Hauser, 2011[3]
- †Myanmarpsilocephala Zhang et al., 2018 (Cenomanian, Burmese amber)[5]
The Burmese amber genus Kuhwahldyia described in 2019 is suggested to be a relative of the family.[6]
Therevoid clade
| Therevoid clade |
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References
- ^ "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System". Retrieved 2018-05-06.
- ^ a b c "Browse Apsilocephalidae". Catalogue of Life. Archived from the original on 2021-06-08. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
- ^ a b c d e f "Apsilocephalidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
- ^ "Apsilocephalidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
- ^ a b Zhang, Q.; Li, X.; Xu, B.; Zhu, Y.; Lu, R.; Wang, B.; Yeates, D. K. (2018). "Two new genera of Apsilocephalidae from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber". Cretaceous Research. 84: 525–532. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2017.11.026. hdl:1885/139188.
- ^ Mónica M. Solórzano Kraemer; Jeffrey M. Cumming (2019). "New genera of brachyceran flies (Diptera: Xylomyidae and Apsilocephalidae sensu auctorum) from mid-Cretaceous Hukawng Valley Burmese amber". Palaeoentomology. 2 (3): 251–261. doi:10.11646/palaeoentomology.2.3.10.
- Nagatomi, A.; Saigusa, Toyohei; Nagatomi, Hisako & Lyneborg, L. (1991): Apsilocephalidae, a new family of orthorrhaphous Brachycera (Insecta, Diptera). Zoological Science (Tokyo) 8(3): 579-591.
- Nagatomi, A.; Saigusa, T.; Nagatomi, H. & Lyneborg, L.. 1991. The systematic position of the Apsilocephalidae, Rhagionempididae, Protempididae, Hilarimorphidae, Vermileonidae and some genera of Bombyliidae (Insecta, Diptera). Zool. Science 8:593-607.
- The genitalia of the Apsilocephalidae (Diptera). Japanese Journal of Entomology. 59. 409-423.
External links
Data related to Apsilocephalidae at Wikispecies- TOL
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This page was last edited on 5 September 2023, at 10:35