Microphorinae Explained

Microphorinae is a subfamily of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is part of an expanded concept of the family, Dolichopodidae sensu lato, though it was previously considered a family of its own.^[1]

Genera

The subfamily includes seven genera, two extant and five extinct:^[2]

• †Avenaphora Grimaldi & Cumming, 1999^[3]
• †Curvus Kaddumi, 2005 Jordanian amber, Albian
• †Meghyperiella Meunier, 1908 Baltic amber, Eocene
• Microphor Macquart, 1827
• †Microphorites Hennig, 1971 Early Cretaceous-Eocene
• †Pristinmicrophor Tang, Shi, Wang & Yang, 2019^[4] Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
• Schistostoma Becker, 1902

Notes and References

1. Sinclair . Bradley J. . Cumming . Jeffrey M. . 2006 . The morphology, higher-level phylogeny and classification of the Empidoidea (Diptera) . . 1180 . 1–172 . 10.11646/zootaxa.1180.1.1 . 1-877407-80-1 . 20 December 2011 .
2. Shamshev . I. V. . Perkovsky . E. E. . A review of fossil taxa of Microphorinae (Diptera, Dolichopodidae sensu lato), with redescription of the Eocene genus Meghyperiella Meunier . 2022 . Zootaxa . 5150 . 3 . 411–427 . 10.11646/zootaxa.5150.3.6 . 249480881 .
3. Grimaldi. David A.. Cumming. Jeffrey Malcolm. 1999. Brachyceran Diptera in Cretaceous ambers and Mesozoic diversification of the Eremoneura. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 239. 1–124. 2246/1583.
4. Chufei. Tang. Chao. Shi. Shuo. Wang. Ding. Yang. 2019. The first report of Dolichopodidae from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research. 104. Article 104179. 10.1016/j.cretres.2019.07.009.