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Cyrtinae
Cyrtinae is a subfamily of the Acroceridae (small-headed flies). Their larvae are endoparasites of araneomorph spiders in the subgroup Entelegynae. Genera The subfamily includes twelve extant genera and two extinct: * ''Asopsebius'' Nartshuk, 1982 * †''Cyrtinella'' Gillung & Winterton, 2017 * ''Cyrtus'' Pierre André Latreille, Latreille, 1796 * ''Hadrogaster'' Schlinger, 1972 * ''Holops'' Rodolfo Amando Philippi, Philippi, 1865 * ''Meruia'' Curtis Williams Sabrosky, Sabrosky, 1950 * ''Nipponcyrtus'' Schlinger, 1972 * ''Opsebius'' Achille Costa, Costa, 1856 * ''Paracyrtus'' Schlinger, 1972 * ''Sabroskya'' Schlinger, 1960 * ''Subcyrtus'' Enrico Brunetti, Brunetti, 1926 * ''Turbopsebius'' Schlinger, 1972 * †''Villalites'' Willi Hennig, Hennig, 1966 * ''Villalus'' Cole, 1918 References Acroceridae Brachycera subfamilies Endoparasites {{Nemestrinoidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acroceridae
The Acroceridae are a small family (biology), family of odd-looking flies. They have a hump-backed appearance with a strikingly small head, generally with a long proboscis for accessing nectar. They are rare and not widely known. The most frequently applied common names are small-headed flies or hunch-back flies. Many are bee or wasp mimicry, mimics. Because they are parasitoids of spiders, they also are sometimes known as spider flies. Description The Acroceridae vary in size from small to fairly large, about the size of large bees, with a wingspan over 25 mm in some species. As a rule, both sexes have tiny heads and a characteristic hump-backed appearance because of the large, rounded thorax. In appearance, they are compact flies without major bristles, but many species have a bee-like hairiness on their bodies, and some are bee or wasp mimicry, mimics. In most species, the eyes are holoptic in both sexes, the heads seemingly composed mainly of the large ommatidia, facete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holops
''Holops'' is a genus of small-headed flies in the family Acroceridae. It is endemic to Chile. Species The genus includes six species: * '' Holops anarayae'' Barahona-Segovia, 2021 * '' Holops cyaneus'' Philippi, 1865 * '' Holops frauenfeldii'' Schiner, 1868 * '' Holops grezi'' Barahona-Segovia, 2021 * '' Holops pullomen'' Barahona-Segovia, 2021 * '' Holops virens'' Bigot Discrimination is the act of making unjustified distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong. People may be discriminated on the basis of race, gender, age, relig ..., 1878 References Acroceridae Diptera of South America Taxa named by Rodolfo Amando Philippi Arthropods of Chile Endemic fauna of Chile {{Nemestrinoidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entomological News
Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arachnids, myriapods, and crustaceans. This wider meaning may still be encountered in informal use. Like several of the other fields that are categorized within zoology, entomology is a taxon-based category; any form of scientific study in which there is a focus on insect-related inquiries is, by definition, entomology. Entomology therefore overlaps with a cross-section of topics as diverse as molecular genetics, behavior, neuroscience, biomechanics, biochemistry, systematics, physiology, developmental biology, ecology, morphology, and paleontology. Over 1.3 million insect species have been described, more than two-thirds of all known species. Some insect species date back to around 400 million years ago. They have many kinds of intera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willi Hennig
Emil Hans Willi Hennig (20 April 1913 – 5 November 1976) was a Germans, German biologist and zoologist who is considered the founder of Phylogenesis, phylogenetic systematics, otherwise known as cladistics. In 1945 as a POWs in World War II, prisoner of war, Hennig began work on his theory of cladistics, which he published in German in 1950, with a substantially revised English translation published in 1966. With his works on evolution and systematics he revolutionised the view of the natural order of beings. As a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist, he specialised in dipterans (true flies). Hennig coined the key terms synapomorphy, Plesiomorphy and symplesiomorphy, symplesiomorphy, and paraphyly. He also asserted, in his "auxiliary principle", that "the presence of apomorphous characters in different species 'is always reason for suspecting kinship [i.e., that species belong to a monophyletic group], and that their origin by convergence should not be presumed a priori' (Hennig, 195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villalites
''Villalites'' is an extinct genus of small-headed flies in the family Acroceridae. It is known from Baltic amber from the Eocene, though the locality is unknown (possibly Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...). It contains only one species, ''Villalites electrica''. References † Prehistoric Diptera genera † † Taxa named by Willi Hennig Baltic amber Eocene insects {{Nemestrinoidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turbopsebius
''Turbopsebius'' is a genus of small-headed flies in the family Acroceridae. There are about four described species in ''Turbopsebius''. Species These four species belong to the genus ''Turbopsebius'': * '' Turbopsebius brunnipennis'' ( Sabrosky, 1948) * '' Turbopsebius diligens'' (Osten Sacken, 1877) * '' Turbopsebius gagatinus'' ( Loew, 1866) * '' Turbopsebius sulphuripes'' ( Loew, 1869) i c g b Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net References Further reading * Acroceridae Articles created by Qbugbot Taxa named by Carl Robert Osten-Sacken {{nemestrinoidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annals And Magazine Of Natural History
The ''Journal of Natural History'' is a scientific journal published by Taylor & Francis focusing on entomology and zoology. The journal was established in 1841 under the name ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History'' (''Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.'') and obtained its current title in 1967. The journal was formed by the merger of the ''Magazine of Natural History'' (1828–1840) and the ''Annals of Natural History'' (1838–1840; previously the ''Magazine of Zoology and Botany'', 1836–1838) and '' Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History''. In September 1855, the ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History'' published "On the Law which has Regulated the Introduction of New Species", a paper which Alfred Russel Wallace had written while working in the state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo in February of that year. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrico Brunetti
Enrico Adelelmo Brunetti (22 May 1862 – 21 January 1927) was a British musician and entomologist. He specialized in the Diptera and worked for many years in India. Brunetti was born in London. His mother was from Bath, Somersetshire and his father, of Italian origin came from Fossombrone, Rome, was a confectioner and importer of wines who ran a restaurant in South Kensington. From a young age, Brunetti showed interest in music composition and was trained by Giacomo Ferrari and Enrico Mattei. A musician by profession, Brunetti was a composer for orchestra and piano. He played piano at the Empire, Islington around 1901 and in bands at Plymouth and Llandrindod Wells around 1902 and was a bandmaster in 1903 at Harwich. He went to India as a musical conductor for Tivoli Theatre in Calcutta and for sometime worked with Bandman Opera Company travelling to Singapore and Java. He spent his free time studying entomology, especially Diptera. In 1904 he made a musical tour of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
