Liancalus

Lianculus virens

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: Hydrophorinae
Genus: Liancalus
Species: L. adenensis – L. benedictus – L. dytei – L. genualis – L. glaucus – L. hydrophilus – L. lasius – L. limbatus – L. lobatus – L. maculosus – L. peringueyi – L. pterodactyl – L. quadrisetus – L. querulus – L. shandonganus – L. similis – L. sinensis – L. sonorus – L. vaillanti – L. virens – L. zhenzhuristi

Name

Liancalus Loew, 1857 [conserved name]

Type species: Dolichopus regius Fabricius, 1805 [= Musca virens Scopoli, 1763], by designation under the plenary powers (ICZN, 2018).

Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 2421 (ICZN, 2018).

Synonymy

• Anoplomerus Rondani, 1856: 141 (preoccupied by Anoplomerus Guerin-Meneville, 1844 (Coleoptera))
  • Placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 2421 (ICZN, 2018).
• Anoplopus Rondani, 1857: 14 (replacement name for Anoplomerus Rondani, 1856; preoccupied by Anoplopus Wagler, 1830 (Reptilia))
• Liancalus Loew, 1857: 22 (replacement name for Anoplomerus Rondani, 1856)

References

Primary references

• ICZN 2018. Opinion 2421 (Case 3681) – Liancalus Loew, 1857 and Scellus Loew, 1857 (Insecta, Diptera, Dolichopodidae): usage conserved. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 75(1): 270–274. DOI: 10.21805/bzn.v75.a058 . PDF Reference page. 
• Loew, H. 1857. Neue Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Dipteren. Fünfter Beitrag. Programm der Königlichen Realschule zu Meseritz 1857: 1–56. BHL. Reference page. 
• Rondani, C. 1856. Dipterologiae Italicae prodromus. Vol: I. Genera Italica ordinis dipterorum ordinatum disposita et distinct et in familias et stirpes aggregate. Parma, 226 + [2] pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Rondani, C. 1857. Dipterologiae italicae prodromus. Vol: II. Species italicae ordinis dipterorum in genera characteribus definita, ordinatim collectae, methodo analitica distinctae, et novis vel minus cognitis descriptis. Pars prima. Oestridae: Syrpfhidae: Conopidae. A. Stocchi, Parmae [= Parma]. 264 pp., 1 pl. BHL. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Dyte, C.E. 1967. The genus Liancalus Loew (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) in the Ethiopian Region. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B. 36(7–8): 123–127. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1967.tb00548.x .
• 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. 
• Negrobov, O.P., Grootaert, P. & Coulibaly, B. 1987. Description d'une espèce nouvelle du genre Liancalus Loew, 1857 (Diptera, Dolichopodidae) du Zaïre. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie 57: 157–159. PDF. Reference page. 
• Runyon, J.B. & Hurley, R.L. 2015. A revision of the Nearctic species of Liancalus Loew (Diptera, Dolichopodidae). ZooKeys 483: 97–147. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.483.9222 . Reference page. 
• Yang, D. 1998. New and little known species of Dolichopodidae from China (I). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique Entomologie 68: 151–164. PDF