Apsilocephalidae is a family of
flies
Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advanced m ...
in the
superfamily Asiloidea
The Asiloidea comprise a very large superfamily insects in the order Diptera, the true flies. It has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring worldwide. It includes the family Bombyliidae, the bee flies, which are parasitoids, and the Asilidae, ...
. It was historically treated as a subfamily within
Therevidae
The Therevidae are a family of flies of the superfamily Asiloidea commonly known as stiletto flies. The family contains about 1,600 described species worldwide, most diverse in arid and semiarid regions with sandy soils. The larvae are predator ...
, 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
* †''
Burmapsilocephala''
Gaimari & Mostovski, 2000 (
Cenomanian,
Burmese amber
Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. The ...
)
[
* '' Clesthentia'' White, 1915][
* '' Clesthentiella'' Nagatomi, Saigusa, Nagatomi & Lyneborg, 1991][
* †'' Irwinimyia'' Zhang ''et al.'', 2018 (Cenomanian, Burmese amber)][
* †'' Kumaromyia'' Grimaldi & Hauser, 2011][
* †'' Myanmarpsilocephala'' Zhang ''et al.'', 2018 (Cenomanian, Burmese amber)]
References
*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
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Brachycera families
Asiloidea
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