Amesorhaga Explained

Amesorhaga is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. All species in the genus are from the Oriental realm.^[1]

Species

The genus contains seven species, all originally from Mesorhaga:

• Amesorhaga angulata (Parent, 1935)^[2] – West Malaysia
• Amesorhaga argentifacies (Parent, 1941)^[3] – Thailand, West Malaysia
• Amesorhaga breviappendiculata (De Meijere, 1916) – Java
• Amesorhaga femorata (De Meijere, 1916) – Java
• Amesorhaga malayensis (Parent, 1935)^[2] – West Malaysia
• Amesorhaga mellavana (Hollis, 1964)^[4] – Sri Lanka
• Amesorhaga pseudolata (Hollis, 1964)^[4] – Sri Lanka

Four further species of Amesorhaga, all extinct, were described from Baltic amber by Negrobov and Selivanova in 2003: A. bickeli, A. longicerca, A. quadrispinosa and A. vladimiri. These have since been moved to the extinct genus Wheelerenomyia by Igor Grichanov in 2008.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Book: Yang. D.. Zhu. Y.. Wang. M.. Zhang. L.. World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera).. 2006. China Agricultural University Press. Beijing. 9787811171020. 1–704.
2. Parent. Octave. Diptères dolichopodides conservés au Muséum des Etats Malais. Encyclopedie Annals and Magazine of Natural History . 1935. 15. 10. 194–215. 10.1080/00222933508654957.
3. Parent. Octave. Diptères Dolichopodides de la région Indoaustralienne. Espèces et localités nouvelles.. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 1941. 7. 11. 195–235.
4. Hollis. D.. Title, Dolichopodidae (Diptera: Brachycera) from Ceylon, collected by F. Keiser.. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. 1964. 75. 219–230.
5. Grichanov. I. Ya.. 2008. Systematic notes on Sciapodinae from Baltic amber and on Dolichopodidae from Tanzanian copal (Diptera). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin. 4. 1. 137–139. 10.23885/1814-3326-2008-4-1-137-139. free.