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Apystomyia
''Apystomyia'' is a genus of flies in the family Apystomyiidae. The genus contains the single living Apystomyiidae species, ''Apystomyia elinguis'', which is primarily found in California. Details of its life history are largely unknown. The extinct genus '' Hilarimorphites'' is known from the Cretaceous Burmese and New Jersey ambers. Formerly placed in the Asiloidea, molecular phylogenetic studies in 2010 placed the genus unambiguously as a sister of the Cyclorrhapha within the clade Eremoneura Eremoneura is a clade of flies within the Brachycera that includes the Empidoidea and the Cyclorrhapha and is a sister of the Asilomorpha. They are thought to have evolved around the Mesozoic. The group includes fossils described in the genus ' .... References External links * Monotypic Brachycera genera Asiloidea genera Taxa named by Axel Leonard Melander {{Asiloidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apystomyiidae
Apystomyiidae is a small family (biology), family of fly, flies containing the living genus ''Apystomyia'' and the extinct genera ''Apystomimus'' and ''Hilarimorphites''. The single living Apystomyiidae species, ''Apystomyia elinguis'', is native to California. Species of ''Hilarimorphites'' have been described from Cretaceous, Mid to late Cretaceous Burmese amber, Burmese and New Jersey amber, New Jersey Amber, ambers, while the single ''Apystomimus'' species is from the Late Jurassic of Kazakhstan. Taxonomy The genus ''Apystomyia'' was first collected in the 1940s, described in 1950 and long placed into the bee-fly family Bombyliidae. The first specimens seen after the 1940s type series were collected in 2005. A study in 1993 suggested the genus was a sister-group to Eremoneura, while placement of the genus into Hilarimorphidae or allied to Therevidae was suggested in 1994. Conversely a new family, Apystomyiidae, was erected for the genus by Nagatomi and Liu based on the distin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |