Microphorella

Microphorella vockerothi

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: Parathalassiinae
Genus: Microphorella
Species: M. acroptera – M. amorimi – M. beckeri – M. bira – M. brevirada – M. bungle – M. cassari – M. chilicotti – M. chiragra – M. curtipes – M. ebejeri – M. emiliae – M. iota – M. irwini – M. longitarsis – M. macdonaldi – M. malaysiana – M. mamillata – M. ornatipes – M. papuana – M. praecox – M. satunensis – M. similis – M. tubifera – M. ulrichi – M. vespera – M. viticula – M. vockerothi – †M. fragilis

Name

Microphorella Becker, 1909: 25 (as subgenus of Microphorus)

Type species: Microphorus praecox Loew, 1864, by original designation.

References

Primary references

• Becker, T. 1909. Microphorus Macq. und seine nachsten Verwandten. (Diptera). Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 28: 25–28. BHL.

Additional references

• Brooks, S.E. & Cumming, J.M. 2012. The Microphorella chillcotti species group: a distinctive lineage of parathalassiine flies from western North America (Diptera: Empidoidea: Dolichopodidae s.l.). The Canadian Entomologist 144(1): 108–121. DOI: 10.4039/tce.2012.11 . Reference page. 
• Brooks, S.E. & Cumming, J.M. 2022. New Australasian Parathalassiinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae sensu lato). Zootaxa 5188(6): 521–543. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5188.6.2 . Reference page. 
• Brooks, S.E. & Cumming, J.M. 2023. The first Neotropical and Afrotropical species of Microphorella Becker, with a key to the genera of Parathalassiinae and species of Microphorella from the Southern Hemisphere (Diptera: Dolichopodidae sensu lato). Zootaxa 5301(5): 581–593. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5301.5.5 . Reference page. 
• Brooks, S.E. & Ulrich, H. 2012. Microphorella similis sp. nov. from Switzerland, a close relative of the type species, M. praecox (Loew) (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Parathalassiinae). Zootaxa 3489: 45–57. Preview PDF Reference page. 
• Colless, D.H. 1964. An Australian species of Microphorella (Diptera: Empididae), with notes on the phylogenetic significance of the genus. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 88: 320–323. BHL
• Cumming, J.M. & Brooks, S.E. 2022. Establishment of the Microphorella breviradia species group, with a key to the Nearctic species groups of Microphorella Becker (Diptera: Dolichopodidae sensu lato: Parathalassiinae). Zootaxa 5134(2): 197–214. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5134.2.2 . Reference page. 
• Gatt, P. 2003. New species and records of Microphorella Becker (Diptera: Empidoidea, Dolichopodidae) from the Mediterranean region. Revue suisse de Zoologie 110(4): 669–684. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.80205 BHL
• Gatt, P. 2011. Microphorella cassari sp n., a new species of Microphorella Becker (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Tunisia. Revue suisse de Zoologie 118(3): 401–412. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.117814 BHL
• Gatt, P. 2012. Two new species of Microphorella Becker (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from the Mediterranean. Revue suisse de Zoologie 119(3): 287–302. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.150196 BHL
• Greenwalt, D.E., Amorim, D.S., Hauser, M., Kerr, P.H., Fitzgerald, S.J., Winterton, S.L., Cumming, J.M., Evenhuis, N.L. & Sinclair, B.J. 2022. Diptera of the Middle Eocene Kishenehn Formation II. Palaeontologia Electronica 25.2.a22. DOI: 10.26879/1215 . Reference page. 
• Shamshev, I.V. 2004. A new species of the genus Microphorella Becker from the Far East of Russia, with notes on some morphological features in the Microphorinae (Diptera: Empidoidea). Studia dipterologica 10(2): 527–535. Abstract
• Shamshev, I.V. & Grootaert, P. 2004. Descriptions of four new species of the genus Microphorella Becker (Diptera: Empidoidea, Microphoridae, Parathalassiini) from Southeast Asia and New Guinea, with notes on the relationships within the genus. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52(1): 45–58. PDF. Reference page. 

Links

• ION [needs update]
• Nomenclator Zoologicus