Sympycninae Explained

Sympycninae is a subfamily of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.^[1] In some classifications, this subfamily includes the genera of the subfamilies Peloropeodinae and Xanthochlorinae.^[2]

Genera

• Brevimyia Miller, 1945^{[3] [4]}
• Calyxochaetus Bigot, 1888^[5]
• Campsicnemus Haliday in Walker, 1851^[6]
• Ceratopos Vaillant, 1952
• Chaetogonopteron De Meijere, 1913
• Colobocerus Parent, 1933^[7]
• Erebomyia Runyon & Hurley, 2004^[8]
• Filatopus Robinson, 1970
• Hercostomoides Meuffels & Grootaert, 1997
• Humongochela Evenhuis, 2004^[9]
• Hyptiocheta Becker, 1922^[10]
• Irwinus Grichanov, 2023^[11]
• Ischiochaetus Bickel & Dyte, 1989^[12]
• Lamprochromus Mik, 1878^[13]
• Liparomyia White, 1916^[14]
• Micropygus Bickel & Dyte, 1989^[12]
• Negrobovus Wang, Evenhuis, Ji, Yang & Zhang, 2021^[15]
• Neoparentia Robinson, 1967^[16]
• Nothorhaphium Bickel, 1999^[17]
• Nurteria Dyte & Smith, 1980^[18]
• Olegonegrobovia Grichanov, 1995 (possible synonym of Teuchophorus?)
• Parasyntormon Wheeler, 1899^[19]
• Phrudoneura Meuffels & Grootaert, 1987 (incertae sedis)
• Pinacocerus Van Duzee, 1930^[20]
• Scelloides Bickel & Dyte, 1989^[12]
• Scotiomyia Meuffels & Grootaert, 1997
• Suschania Negrobov, 2003
• Sympycnus Loew, 1857^[21]
• Syntormon Loew, 1857^[21]
• Telmaturgus Mik, 1874
• Tetrachaetus Bickel & Dyte, 1989^[12]
• Teuchophorus Loew, 1857^[21]
• Yumbera Bickel, 1992^[22]

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. Web site: 5 July 2022. An Update of the 1998 Checklist of Diptera of the British Isles. Dipterists Forum. 6 March 2023.
3. Miller. D.. Generic name changes in Diptera. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 1945. 14. 5–6. 72. B. 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1945.tb00021.x.
4. Parent. O.. Étude monographique sur les Diptères Dolichopodides de Nouvelle Zélande. Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles. Série B. Sciences Physiques et Naturelles. 1933. 53. 325–441.
5. Bigot. J. M. F.. Les Études et les connaissances diptérologiques. Bull. [Bimens.] Soc. Ent. Fr.. 1888. 8: xxiv. 6.
6. Book: Haliday. A. H.. Diptera. Dolichopidae. In Walker, F., Insecta Britannica, Diptera. Volume 1. (q.v.) [1851.12.??]. 1851. 144–221.
7. Parent. Octave. Étude monographique sur les Diptères Dolichopodides de Nouvelle Zélande. Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles. Série B. Sciences Physiques et Naturelles. 1933. 53. 325–441.
8. Runyon. J. B.. Hurley. R. L.. 2004. A new genus of long-legged flies displaying remarkable wing directional asymmetry. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. 271. Supplement 3. S114–S116. 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0118. 15101436. 4142574. 1809986.
9. Evenhuis. N. L.. 2004. Humongochela, a new genus of waterfall-loving flies from the Marquesas Islands (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Bishop Museum Bulletins in Entomology. 12. 35–43.
10. Becker. T.. Dipterologischen Studien. Dolichopodidae. B. Nearktische und Neotropische Regions. Abh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien. 1922. 13. 1. 395.
11. Grichanov. I.Ya.. 2023. Irwinus, a new genus of long-legged flies from South Africa (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Sympycninae). Russian Entomological Journal. 32. 1. 83–88. 10.15298/rusentj.32.1.10. free.
12. Bickel. D. J.. Dyte. C. E.. Family Dolichopodidae. Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. 1989. 393–418. 15 December 2015.
13. Mik. Josef. Dipterologische Untersuchungen. Jahresber. K. K. Akad. Gymnasium. 1878. 1–24, 1 pl.
14. White. A.. The Diptera-Brachycera of Tasmania. Part III. Families Asilidae, Bombylidae, Empidae, Dolichopodidae & Phoridae. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. 1916. 1916. 148–266. 22 December 2015. 10.5962/bhl.part.28993. free.
15. Wang. M.. Evenhuis. N.L.. Ji. Y.. Yang. D.. Zhang. L.. 2021. Negrobovus, a new genus from the Philippines (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Sympycninae). Proceedings of the Russian Entomological Society. 92. 37–41. 10.47640/1605-7678_2021_92_37 .
16. Robinson. Harold E.. Neoparentia a new genus of American Dolichopodidae (Diptera) . Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 1967. 69. 252–259. 4 March 2017. The Entomological Society of Washington.
17. Bickel. D. J.. 1999. Australian Sympycninae II: Syntormon Loew and Nothorhaphium, gen. nov., with a treatment of the Western Pacific fauna, and notes on the subfamily Rhaphiinae and Dactylonotus Parent (Diptera : Dolichopodidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy. 13. 1. 179–206. 10.1071/IT97028.
18. Book: Dyte. C. E.. Smith. K. G. V.. Crosskey. R.W.. Family Dolichopodidae. A Catalogue of Diptera of the Afrotropical Region. 1980. British Museum (Natural History). London. 978-0565008215. 443–463. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/62053066.
19. Wheeler. W. M.. New species of Dolichopodidae from the United States.. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 1899. 3. 1–84, 4 pls. 2. The California Academy of Sciences.
20. Van Duzee. M. C.. Dolichopodidae. Diptera of Patagonia and South Chile. . 1930. 5. 1. 1–92.
21. Loew. Hermann. Neue Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Dipteren. Fünfter Beitrag. Programm der Königlichen Realschule zu Meseritz. 1857. 1853-1862 . 1–56.
22. Bickel. D. J.. 1992. The Australian Sympycninae (Diptera : Dolichopodidae): Introduction and description of a new genus, Yumbera. Invertebrate Taxonomy. 6. 4. 1005–1017. 10.1071/IT9921005.