Sciapodinae Explained

Sciapodinae is a subfamily of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.^{[1] [2] [3]} Members of the subfamily possess several ancestral characteristics of the family, such as branched vein M₁₊₂ in the wings (though M₂ is absent or reduced in Mesorhagini) and a pedunculate hypopygium. They also typically have a deeply excavated vertex, giving their heads the appearance of a dumbbell when viewed from the front.^[4]

Members of Sciapodinae are most diverse in South America, sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent, South-east Asia and Australasia. The subfamily is suggested to have originated during the Early Cretaceous on the supercontinent Gondwana, which is supported by vicariant distributions in the genera Heteropsilopus, Condylostylus and Parentia.^[4]

Genera

• Tribe Mesorhagini Bickel, 1994^[4]
  • Amesorhaga Bickel, 1994^[4]
  • Mesorhaga Schiner, 1868^[5]
  • Negrobovia Bickel, 1994^[4]
• Tribe Sciapodini Becker, 1917
  • Bickelia Grichanov, 1996^[6]
  • Condylostylus Bigot, 1859^[7]
  • Dytomyia Bickel, 1994^[4]
  • Helixocerus Lamb, 1929^[8]
  • Mascaromyia Bickel, 1994^[4]
  • Narrabeenia Bickel, 1994^[4]
  • Naufraga Bickel, 1992^[9]
  • Pilbara Bickel, 1994^[4]
  • Sciapus Zeller, 1842
  • Sinosciapus Yang, 2001^[10]
• Tribe Chrysosomatini Becker, 1918
  • Abbemyia Bickel, 1994^[4]
  • Amblypsilopus Bigot, 1889
  • Austrosciapus Bickel, 1994^[4]
  • Bickeliolus Grichanov, 1996^[11]
  • Chrysosoma Guérin-Méneville, 1831
  • Ethiosciapus Bickel, 1994^{[4] [11]}
  • Gigantosciapus Grichanov, 1997^[12]
  • Heteropsilopus Bigot, 1859
  • Krakatauia Enderlein, 1912^[13]
  • Lapita Bickel, 2002^[8]
  • Parentia Hardy, 1935^[14]
  • Plagiozopelma Enderlein, 1912^[13]
  • Pseudoparentia Bickel, 1994^[4]
• Pouebo Bickel, 2008^[15]
• †Wheelerenomyia Meunier, 1907

Notes and References

1. Book: Grichanov. I. Ya. 1999. A check list of Genera of the family Dolichopodidae (Diptera). 327–332pp. Studia Dipterologica.
2. Book: D'Assis Fonseca. E.C.M.. 1978. Dolichopodidae (Diptera, Orthorrhapha, Brachycera) (Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects 9/5). Royal Entomological Society of London. London. 90 pp.
3. Book: Yang. D.. Zhu. Y.. Wang. M.. Zhang. L.. World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera).. 2006. China Agricultural University Press. Beijing. 9787811171020. 1–704.
4. Bickel. D. J.. The Australian Sciapodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with a review of the Oriental and Australasian faunas, and a world conspectus of the subfamily. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement. 1994. 21. 1–394. 10 September 2015. 10.3853/j.0812-7387.21.1994.50.
5. Book: Schiner . Ignaz Rudolph . Diptera in: Wüllerstorf-Urbair, Bernhard, Freiherr von (ed)Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von W . 1868 . 2 . vi + 388pp. 4 pls . 7 May 2020 . Kaiserlich-K1861-75. . Wien.
6. Grichanov. I. Y.. Bickelia (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), a new genus from Indian Ocean islands. Dipterological Research. 1996. 7. 2. 119–122. 1021-1020.
7. Bigot . Jacques Marie Frangile . Essai d'une classification générale et synoptique de l'ordre des insectes diptères. VII memoire. Tribus des Rhaphidi et Dolichopodid (Mihi).) . Annales de la Société Entomologique de France . 1859 . 7 . 3 . 201–231 . 19 April 2020.
8. Book: Bickel. D. J.. 2002. The Sciapodinae of New Caledonia (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Grandcolas. P.. Najt. J.. Zoologia Neocaledonica 5. Systématique et endémisme en Nouvelle-Calédonie. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. 187. 11–83. 2-85653-179-2.
9. Bickel. D. J.. Sciapodinae, Medeterinae (Insecta: Diptera) with a generic review of the Dolichopodidae. 31 December 2015. Fauna of New Zealand. 1991. 13 Jan 1992. 23. 1–74. 7 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160307023454/http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/49017/FNZ23Bickel1991150.pdf. dead.
10. Book: Yang. D.. Diptera: Dolichopodidae . 428–441 . Wu, H. . Pan, C. . amp . Insects of Tianmushan National Nature Reserve . 2001 . Science Press . Beijing . Chinese, English.
11. Grichanov. I. Y.. Afrotropical species of the genus Ethiosciapus Bickel (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Dipterological Research. 1996. 7. 3. 223–227. 1021-1020.
12. Grichanov. I. Y.. Giganosciapus (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), a new genus from tropical Africa . Dipterological Research. 1997. 8. 1. 79–83. 1021-1020.
13. Enderlein. G.. Zur Kenntnis aussereuropäischer Dolichopodiden I tribus Psilodini. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Jena (Suppl.). 1912. 15. 1. 367–408. 15 December 2015.
14. Hardy. G. H.. Miscellaneous notes on Australian Diptera III. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 1935. 60. 248–256. 21 December 2016.
15. Book: Bickel. D. J.. 2008. Pouebo (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), a remarkable new genus from New Caledonia, with secondary symmetry in the male postabdomen. Grandcolas. P.. Zoologia Neocaledonica 6. Biodiversity studies in New Caledonia. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. 197. 49–55. 978-2-85653-605-6.