Achalcus

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.