Apsilocephalidae Explained

Apsilocephalidae is a family of flies in the superfamily Asiloidea. It was historically treated as a subfamily within Therevidae, 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^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• †Burmapsilocephala Gaimari & Mostovski, 2000 (Cenomanian, Burmese amber)^[3]
• Clesthentia White, 1915^{[2] [3]}
• Clesthentiella Nagatomi, Saigusa, Nagatomi & Lyneborg, 1991^[3]
• †Irwinimyia Zhang et al., 2018 (Cenomanian, Burmese amber)^[5]
• †Kaurimyia Winterton & Irwin, 2008^{[2] [3]}
• †Kumaromyia Grimaldi & Hauser, 2011^[3]
• †Myanmarpsilocephala Zhang et al., 2018 (Cenomanian, Burmese amber)

The Burmese amber genus Kuhwahldyia described in 2019 is suggested to be a relative of the family.^[6]

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

• • TOL

Notes and References

1. Web site: ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System . 2018-05-06.
2. Web site: Browse Apsilocephalidae . Catalogue of Life . 2018-05-06 . 2021-06-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210608075149/https://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/093776d0962531f4189fae3dad588a00 . dead .
3. Web site: Apsilocephalidae . GBIF . 2018-05-06.
4. Web site: Apsilocephalidae Family Information . BugGuide.net . 2018-05-06.
5. Zhang . Q. . Li . X. . Xu . B. . Zhu . Y. . Lu . R. . Wang . B. . Yeates . D. K. . 2018 . Two new genera of Apsilocephalidae from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber . Cretaceous Research . 84 . 525–532 . 10.1016/j.cretres.2017.11.026 . 1885/139188 . free .
6. Mónica M. Solórzano Kraemer . Jeffrey M. Cumming . 2019 . New genera of brachyceran flies (Diptera: Xylomyidae and Apsilocephalidae sensu auctorum) from mid-Cretaceous Hukawng Valley Burmese amber . Palaeoentomology . 2 . 3 . 251–261 . 10.11646/palaeoentomology.2.3.10 . free .