Achalcus

Achalcus dytei

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Empidoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Antliophora Ordo: Diptera Subordo: Brachycera Infraordo: Asilomorpha Superfamilia: Empidoidea

Familia: Dolichopodidae
Subfamilia: Achalcinae
Genus: Achalcus
Species: A. bicolor – A. bilineatus – A. bimaculatus – A. brevicornis – A. britannicus – A. californicus – A. cinereus – A. costaricensis – A. cyanocephalus – A. dytei – A. flavicollis – A. longicercus – A. maculipennis – A. micromorphoides – A. niger – A. nigropunctatus – A. oregonensis – A. phragmitidis – A. polleti – A. similis – A. thalhammeri – A. tibialis – A. utahensis – A. vaillanti

Name

Achalcus Loew, 1857: 30

Type species: Porphyrops flavicollis Meigen, 1824, by subsequent designation by Robinson (1970): 22

Synonyms

• Clinocampsicnemus Vaillant & Brunhes, 1980: 365 [syn.: Negrobov, 1991: 32]
  • Type species: Clinocampsicnemus depuytoraci Vaillant & Brunhes, 1980 [= Rhaphium cinereum Haliday, 1851], by original designation.

References

Primary references

• Loew, H. 1857. Neue Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Dipteren. Fünfter Beitrag. Programm der Königlichen Realschule zu Meseritz 1857: 1–56. BHL. Reference page. 
• Negrobov, O.P. 1991. Dolichopodidae. Pp. 11–142. In: Soós, Á. & Papp, L. (eds.) Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Volume 7. Dolichopodidae–Platyplezidae. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest. 292 pp. ISBN 0-444-98731-2 (print). ISBN 9780444599940 (e-book). Google Books. Reference page. 
• Robinson, H. 1970. Family Dolichopodidae. In: A catalogue of the Diptera of the Americas South of the United States. Fasc. 40. Universidade de São Paulo, Museu de Zoologia, 1–92. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Brunhes, J. 1986. Un Dolichopodide nouveau du Massif Central français : Achalcus vaillanti n. sp. [Dipt.]. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 91(9–10): 307–311. Online.
• Grichanov, I.Ya. 2024 (2023). A New Extinct Genus of Long-Legged Flies, with a Brief Review and Key to Extinct Genera of Baltic Amber Dolichopodidae (Diptera). Paleontological Journal 57(Suppl 3): S246–S261. DOI: 10.1134/S0031030123600051 . Reference page. 
• Negrobov, O.P. & Selivanova, O.V. 2010. A new species of the genus Achalcus Low, 1857 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Far East region of Russia. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 6(1): 123–124. DOI: 10.23885/1814-3326-2010-6-1-123-124 . Reference page. 
• Pollet, M. 1996. Systematic revision and phylogeny of the Palaearctic species of the genus Achalcus Loew (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) with the description of four new species. Systematic Entomology 21: 353–386. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1996.tb00604.x
• Pollet, M. 2005. Systematic revision of Neotropical Achalcus and a related new genus (Diptera: Dolichopodidae, Achalcinae) with comments on their phylogeny, ecology and zoogeography. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143(1): 27–73. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00141.x
• Pollet, M.A.A. 2005. Nearctic Achalcinae with a first Australachalcus species of North America (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). European journal of entomology 102(2): 279–288. DOI: 10.14411/eje.2005.039 PDF
• Pollet, M. & Cumming, J.M. 1998. Systematic revision of Nearctic species of Achalcus Loew (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) with comments on their phylogeny, ecology and zoogeography. Systematic entomology, 23(4): 371–385. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3113.1998.00062.x

Links

• Evenhius, N.L. 2014. Family Dolichopodidae. In: Catalog of the fossil flies of the world (Insecta: Diptera) website. Available at: http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/fossilcat/fossdolicho.html. Version 2.0.