Acrocera orbiculus

Acrocera orbiculus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Nemestrinoidea

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: Nemestrinoidea

Familia: Acroceridae
Subfamilia: Acrocerinae
Genus: Acrocera
Species: Acrocera orbiculus

Name

Acrocera orbiculus (Fabricius, 1787)

Note: "orbiculus" is a noun, not an adjective, so it retains its original spelling (ICZN 31.2.1).

Synonymy

• Syrphus orbiculus Fabricius, 1787: 340 [original combination]
  • Holotype: ZMUC. No specimen numbers or gender stated. Only one wing left.
  • Type locality: Germany, Kiel.
• Syrphus globulus Panzer, 1802: 20 [pl. 20] [syn.: Schlinger (1965: 406)]
  • Holotype: Unknown. No specimen numbers or gender stated. The figured specimen is most likely a female.
  • Type locality: Germany, probably around Eichstätt (Bavaria) as the type was collected by Patricius Trost.
• Acrocera albipes Meigen, 1804: 148 [syn.: (with A. globulus) Boie (1838: 236)]
  • Holotype: Unknown. No specimen numbers or gender stated.
  • Type locality: not given (probably Central Europe, from coll. Baumhauer).
• Ogcodes pubescens Latreille, 1805: 315 [syn.: ? Erichson (1840: 168)]
  • Holotype: Unknown. No gender stated, but probably an entirely dark female.
  • Type locality: France, Département Hauts-de-Seine, Meudon.
• Acrocera borealis Zetterstedt, 1838: 573 [syn.: de Jong et al. (2000: 175)]
  • Lectotype: ZML. ♀.
  • Type locality: Sweden, Åsele.
• Acrocera tumida Erichson, 1840: 166 [syn.: Sack (1936: 30)]
  • Holotype: MNHU. ♀.
  • Type locality: not given (probably Germany).
• Acrocera hubbardi Cole, 1919: 58 [syn.: Schlinger (1965: 406)]
  • Holotype: USNM 21205. ♀.
  • Type locality: USA, Arizona, Santa Rita Mountains.
• Paracrocera manevali Séguy, 1926: 164 [syn.: Kehlmaier & Almeida (2014: 145)]
  • Holotype: MNHN. ♀.
  • Type locality: France, Département Haute-Loire, Tence
• Paracrocera minuscula Séguy, 1934: 27 [syn.: Kehlmaier & Almeida (2014: 145)]
  • Holotype: MNHN. ♂.
  • Type locality: Spain, Zaragoza.
• Acrocera hungerfordi Sabrosky, 1944: 406 [syn.: Sabrosky (1948: 405)]
  • Holotype: SEMC. ♀.
  • Type locality: USA, Michigan, Cheboygan Co.
• Paracrocera kaszabi Majer, 1977: 105 [syn.: Kehlmaier & Almeida (2014: 145)]
  • Holotype: HNHM. ♀.
  • Type locality: Mongolia, Tosgoni ovoo, 5–10 km from Ulan Baator.

References

Primary references

• Boie, F. 1838. Zur Verwandlungsgeschichte inländischer Zweiflügler. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift 2: 234–248. BHL.
• Cole, F.R. 1919. The Dipterous Family Cyrtidae in North America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 45(1): 1–79. BHL. JSTOR.
• Erichson, W.F. 1840. Entomographien, Untersuchungen in dem Gebiete der Entomologie, mit besonderer Benutzung der königl. Sammlung zu Berlin. F.H. Morin, Berlin. 180 pp. 2 plates. BHL Reference page. 
• Fabricius, J.C. 1787. Mantissa insectorum, sistens eorum species nuper detectas adiectis characteribus genericis, differentiis specificis, emendationibus, observationibus. Vol. 2: 382 pp. Christ. Gottl. Proft, Hafniae. BHL Reference page. 
• Kehlmaier, C. & Almeida, J.M. 2014. New host records for European Acroceridae (Diptera), with discussion of species limits of Acrocera orbiculus (Fabricius) based on DNA-barcoding. Zootaxa 3780(1): 135–152. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3780.1.5 . Reference page. 
• Latreille, P.A. 1805. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des crustacés et des insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite aux oeuvres de Leclerc de Buffon, et partie du cours complet d’histoire naturelle rédigé par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Tome quatorzième. F. Dufart, Paris. 432 pp. BHL.
• Majer, J. 1977. Data to the Acroceridae (Diptera) fauna of Mongolia. Folia Entomologica Hungarica 30: 105–107. [not seen]
• Meigen, J. 1804. Klassifikazion und Beschreibung der europäischen zweiflügligen Insekten (Diptera Linn.) 1(1), v–xxiv + 1–152. Karl Reichard, Braunschweig. GDZ Reference page. 
• Panzer, G.W.F. 1802. Faunae insectorum Germanicae initia. Deutschlands Insecten. Heft 86. Felsecker, Nürnberg. 24 pp., 24 pls. BHL.
• Sabrosky, C.W. 1944. A revision of the American spider parasites of the genera Ogcodes and Acrocera (Diptera, Acroceridae). American Midland Naturalist 31(2): 385–413. DOI: 10.2307/2421075. JSTOR.
• Sabrosky, C.W. 1948. A Further Contribution to the Classification of the North American Spider Parasites of the Family Acroceratidae (Diptera). The American Midland Naturalist 39(2): 382–430. DOI: 10.2307/2421592, JSTOR .
• Sack, P. 1936. 21. Cyrtidae (Acroceridae). In: Lindner, E. (ed.) Die Fliegen der paläarktischen Region, Band IV/1. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, 36 pp., 3 pls. [not seen]
• Schlinger, E.I. 1965. Acroceridae. In: Stone, A., Sabrosky, C.W., Wirth, W.W., Foote, R.H. & Coulson, J.R. (eds.) A Catalog of the Diptera of America north of Mexico. Agriculture Handbook (United States Department of Agriculture) 276: 403–407. Google Books.
• Séguy, E. 1926. Diptères (Brachycères). Faune de France 13: 308 pp., 685 fig. PDF.
• Zetterstedt, J.W. 1838. Sectio Tertia. Diptera. Dipterologis Scandinaviae amicis et popularibus carissimus. Insecta Lapponica (i-vi). Leopold Voss, Lipsiae. pp. 477–868. BHL. Reference page.