Acropsilus

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: incertae sedis
Genus: Acropsilus
Species: A. albitibia – A. boharti – A. brevitalus – A. colmani – A. eburneensis – A. errabundus – A. guangdongensis – A. guangxiensis – A. igori – A. jinxiuensis – A. kuranda – A. luoxiangensis – A. malaita – A. maprik – A. minutus – A. niger – A. nigricornis – A. olegi – A. opipara – A. perminutus – A. protractus – A. putosa – A. stekolnikovi – A. toma – A. udot – A. vorax – A. yunnanensis – A. zengchengensis – A. zhuae
[Sources: Bickel (1998: 3), Grichanov (1998), Yang et al. (2006), Wang, Yang & Grootaert (2007), Grichanov & Mostovski (2009)]

Name

Acropsilus Mik, 1878: 6

Type species: Chrysotus niger Loew, 1869, by original designation.

Synonyms

• Campsicnemoides Curran, 1927: 184 [synonymized by Grichanov & Mostovski (2009): 38]
  • Type species: Campsicnemoides vorax Curran, 1927, by monotypy.
• Nobilusa Wei, 2006: 491, 500 [synonymized by Yang et al., 2006]
  • Type species: Nobilusa opipara Wei, 2006, by original designation.

References

Primary references

• Curran, C.H. 1927. Records and descriptions of South African Diptera with notes on two Wiedemann types. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 12: 181–185. [not seen]
• Grichanov, I.Ya. & Mostovski, M.B. 2009. Long-legged flies (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) in the collection of the Natal Museum: A review of C.H. Curran's types, new synonyms, and new combinations. Zootaxa 2194(1): 37–53. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2194.1.3 . Reference page. 
• Mik, J. 1878. Dipterologische Untersuchungen. Jahresberichte des Kaiserlich-Königlichen Akademische Gymnasium, Wien, 1877/1878, 1–24. Google Books .
• Yang, D., Zhu, Y.-J., Wang, M.-Q. & Zhang, L.-L. 2006. World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera). China Agricultural University Press, Beijing. 704 pp. ISBN 9787811171020. Abstract at NHBS. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Bickel, D.J. 1992 (imprint 1991). Sciapodinae, Medeterinae (Insecta: Diptera) with a generic review of the Dolichopodidae. Fauna of New Zealand 23: 1–74. DOI: 10.7931/J2/FNZ.23 . Reference page. 
• Bickel, D.J. 1998. Australian, Melanesian and Micronesian Acropsilus Mik (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 141(1): 1–17. DOI: 10.1163/22119434-99900001 . PDF. Reference page. 
• Dyte, C.E. 1975. Family Dolichopodidae. Pp. 212–258. In: Delfinado, M.D. & Hardy, D.E. (eds) A Catalog of the Diptera of the Oriental Region. Volume II—Suborder Brachycera through Division Aschiza, Suborder Cyclorrhapha. Honolulu, University Press of Hawaii. DOI: 10.1515/9780824886578 . Reference page. 
• Dyte, C.E. & Smith, K.G.V. 1980. 33. Family Dolichopodidae. Pp. 443–463. In: Crosskey, R. (ed.) Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1437 pp. ISBN 0-565-00821-8. BHL. Reference page. 
• Grichanov, I.Ya. 1998. Afrotropical species of the genus Acropsilus Mik (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). International Journal of Dipterological Research 9(3): 183–190. Online
• Oldroyd, H. 1955. [The Diptera of Auckland and Campbell Islands. Part 4.] A wingless dolichopodid (Diptera) from Campbell Island. Records of the Dominion Museum 2(4): 243–246. Full article. Reference page. 
• Sinclair, B.J., Brooks, S.E. & Cumming, J.M. 2008. A critical review of the world catalogs of Empidoidea (Insecta: Diptera) by Yang et al. (2006, 2007). Zootaxa 1846: 61–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1846.1.7 .
• Wang, M.Q., Yang, D. & Grootaert, P. 2007. Revision of the species of Acropsilus Mik (Diptera, Dolichopodidae) from China. Biologia 62(1): 88–94. DOI: 10.2478/s11756-007-0015-6 . Reference page. 

Links

• Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist [needs to lose A. borboroides
  ]
• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus
• Systema Dipterorum Version 1.0. Last updated: 10 August 2010 [genus details]
• Systema Dipterorum Version 1.0. Last updated: 10 August 2010 [species list, agrees with the list above]