Microphorinae is a subfamily 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 ...
in the family
Dolichopodidae
Dolichopodidae, the long-legged flies, are a large, cosmopolitan family of true flies with more than 7,000 described species in about 230 genera. The genus ''Dolichopus'' is the most speciose, with some 600 species.
Dolichopodidae generally are ...
. It is part of an expanded concept of the family, Dolichopodidae ''sensu lato'', though it was previously considered a family of its own.
Genera
The subfamily includes seven genera, two extant and five extinct:
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Avenaphora''
Grimaldi & Cumming, 1999
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Curvus''
Kaddumi, 2005 Jordanian amber
Jordanian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Jordan, a country in the Near East
* Jordanian culture
* Jordanian people, see Demographics of Jordan
* Jordanian cuisine
* Jordanian Arabic
Jordanian Arabic is a dialect continu ...
, Albian
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Meghyperiella''
Meunier, 1908 Baltic amber
The Baltic region is home to the largest known deposit of amber, called Baltic amber or succinite. It was produced sometime during the Eocene epoch, but exactly when is controversial. It has been estimated that these forests created more than 1 ...
, Eocene
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Microphor''
Macquart, 1827
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Microphorites''
Hennig, 1971 Early Cretaceous-Eocene
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Pristinmicrophor''
Tang, Shi, Wang & Yang, 2019Burmese 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 ...
, Myanmar,
Cenomanian
The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series. An age is a unit of geochronology; it is a unit of time; the stage is a unit in the s ...
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Schistostoma''
Becker
Becker () is one of the German-language surnames, along with Bäcker and Baecker, that derive from the root, which refers to baking. The surname began as a name for a baker (and thus his family). In northern Germany it can also derive from the ...
, 1902
References
External links
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Dolichopodidae subfamilies