Mythicomyiidae (lat.) - a family of insects from the order Diptera , suborder Short-billed .
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Content
- 1 Distribution
- 2 Description
- 3 Systematics
- 4 Literature
- 5 notes
Distribution
It is found almost everywhere, especially in deserts and desert-like regions. Although they are not frequent in the tropics, the genera Cephalodromia and Platypygus are known from these regions.
Description
Flies of small sizes, reaching only 0.5-5 mm in length, have a rather thin body.
Systematics
About 350 species. An ancient group, also known from the Cretaceous ( Procyrtosia Hennig and Proplatypygus Zaitzev) and Jurassic periods ( Palaeoplatypygus Kovalev; 163–168 Ma), as well as from various amber, including Eocene Baltic and Rovno amber ( Carmenelectra Evenhuis [ 2002] [1] 2] .
- Acridophagus Evenhuis , 1983
- Ahessea Greathead & Evenhuis, 2001
- † Borissovia Evenhuis, 2002 [1]
- † Carmenelectra Evenhuis, 2002 [1]
- Cephalodromia Becker, 1914
- Cyrtisiopsis Séguy, 1930
- Cyrtosia Perris, 1839
- Doliopteryx Hesse, 1938
- Elachymyia Hall & Evenhuis, 1987
- Empidideicus Becker, 1907
- † Eurodoliopteryx Nel, 2006
- Glabellula Bezzi, 1902
- Glella Greathead & Evenhuis, 2001
- Hesychastes Evenhuis, 2002
- Heterhybos Brèthes, 1919
- Leylaiya Efflatoun, 1945
- Mnemomyia Bowden, 1975
- Mythenteles Hall & Evenhuis, 1986
- Mythicomyia Coquillett, 1893
- Nexus Hall & Evenhuis, 1987
- Onchopelma Hesse, 1938
- † Palaeoplatypygus Kovalev, 1985 [3]
- Paraconsors Hall & Evenhuis, 1987
- Pieza Evenhuis, 2002 [4]
- Platypygus Loew, 1844
- † Procyrtosia Zaitzev, 1986
- † Proplatypygus Hennig, 1969
- Pseudoglabellula Hesse, 1967
- Psiloderoides Hesse, 1967
- † Riga Evenhuis, 2013 [2]
- Reissa Evenhuis & Baéz, 2001
Literature
- Evenhuis, NL, 2002. Catalog of the Mythicomyiidae of the world. Bishop Museum Bulletin in Entomology 10: 1-85. established classification of the family.
- Greathead, DJ & NL Evenhuis, 1997. Family Bombyliidae. In: Contributions to a Manual of Palaearctic Diptera Volume 2 (L. Papp & B. Darvas, eds.): 487-512. Science Herald, Budapest. provide a key to the Palaearctic genera.
- Greathead, DJ & NL Evenhuis, 2001. Annotated keys to the genera of African Bombylioidea (Diptera: Bombyliidae; Mythicomyiidae). African Invertebrates 42: 105-224. good illustrated keys to African genera.
- Zaitzev, VF 1991. the phylogeny and system of dipterous insects of the superfamily Bombylioidea (Diptera). Entomologicheskoe Obozreniye 70: 716-736. [English translation, 1992, in Entomological Review 71 (4): 94-114.]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Evenhuis, NL Review oftheTertiary microbombyliids (Diptera: Mythicomyiidae) in Baltic, Bitterfeld, and Dominican amber (Eng.) // Zootaxa : Journal. - Auckland , New Zealand : Magnolia Press, 2002. - Vol. 100. - P. 1–15. - ISSN 1175-5326 .
- ↑ 1 2 Evenhuis, NL New microbombyliids (Diptera: Mythicomyiidae) from Eocene Baltic and Rovno ambers, with notes on previously described amber species (Eng.) // Zootaxa : Journal. - Auckland , New Zealand : Magnolia Press, 2013 .-- Vol. 3731, no. 3 . - P. 371-380. - ISSN 1175-5326 . - DOI : 10.11646 / zootaxa.3731.3.6 .
- ↑ Kovalev V.G. Bibionomorpha and Asilomorpha. // In the book: Two-winged insects of the Jurassic of Siberia. - Moscow: Nauka, 1985 .-- S. 113-187. - 199 p. - 800 copies.
- ↑ Evenhuis NL 2002. Pieza, a new genus of microbombyliids from the New World (Diptera: Mythicomyiidae). Zootaxa 36: 1-28