Microphorinae

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: Microphorinae
Genera: Microphor – Schistostoma – ?†Avenaphora – †Curvus – †Meghyperiella – ?†Microphorites – ?†Pristinmicrophor

Name

Microphorinae Collin, 1960

Synonymy

Microphorinae Collin, 1960: 393
Microphoridae: Chvála, 1983: 85, 243

References

Primary references

Chvála, M. 1983. The Empidoidea (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Part II. General Part. The families Hybotidae, Atelestidae and Microphoridae. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 12. Brill. 279 pp. ISBN 978-87-87-49107-5. [not seen]
Collin, J.E. 1960. Some Empididae from Palestine. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1959) (13) 2: 385–420. DOI: 10.1080/00222935908650872 .

Additional references

Badano, D., Sinclair, B.J., Zhang, Q., Palermo, F., Pieroni, N., Maugeri, L., Fratini, M. & Cerretti, P. 2023. New Cretaceous empidoids and the Mesozoic dance fly revolution (Diptera: Empidoidea). Cladistics 39(4): 337–357. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12536 . Reference page.
Brooks, S.E. & Cumming, J.M. 2022. Revision of the Nearctic Microphorinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae sensu lato). Zootaxa 5095(1): 1–141. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5095.1.1 . Reference page.
Chvála, M. 1986. Revision of Palaearctic Microphoridae (Diptera) 1. Microphor Macq. Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca 83(6): 432–454. Online
Chvála, M. 1987. Revision of Palaearctic Microphoridae (Diptera) 2. Schistostoma Beck. Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca 84(2): 133–155. Online
Hennig, W. 1971. Insektenfossilien aus der unteren Kreide. III. Empidiformia (,Microphorinae') aus der unteren Kreide und aus dem Baltischen Bernstein; ein Vertreter der Cyclorrhapha aus der unteren Kreide. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde 232: 1–28. BHL.
Shamshev, I.V. & Perkovsky, E.E. 2022. A review of fossil taxa of Microphorinae (Diptera, Dolichopodidae sensu lato), with redescription of the Eocene genus Meghyperiella Meunier. Zootaxa 5150(3): 411–427. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5150.3.6 . ResearchGate . Plazi. Reference page.
Sinclair, B.J. & Cumming, J.M. 2006. The morphology, higher-level phylogeny and classification of the Empidoidea (Diptera). Zootaxa 1180: 1–172. Abstract & excerpt. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1180.1.1. PDF A, PDF B. Reference page.