Microphorites

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
Genus: †Microphorites
Species: †M. deploegi – †M. erikai – †M. extinctus – †M. magaliae – †M. moravicus – †M. oculeus – †M. pouilloni – †M. similis – †M. utrillensis

Name

Microphorites Hennig, 1971: 16

Type species: Microphorites extinctus Hennig, 1971, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• 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.

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.  [placed as Dolichopodidae incertae sedis]
• Bramuzzo, S. & Nel, A. 2017. Youngest representative of the extinct genus Microphorites in the Eocene amber of France (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Microphorinae). Zootaxa 4231(4): 590–594. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4231.4.11 . Reference page. 
• Jouault, C., Ngô-Muller, V., Zhang, Q.-Q. & Nel, A. 2020. New empidoid flies (Diptera: Atelestidae; Dolichopodidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Palaeoentomology 3(2): 204–211. DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.3.2.10 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Ngô-Muller, V., Garrouste, R., Pouillon, J.-M. & Nel, A. 2020. A new species of the long-legged fly genus Microphorites in Burmese amber (Dolichopodidae: Microphorinae). Cretaceous Research 107: Article 104284. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104284 . Reference page. 
• 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. 

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.