Philopotinae

Helle longirostris

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Nemestrinoidea

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: Nemestrinoidea

Familia: Acroceridae
Subfamilia: Philopotinae
Genera (12 + 5†): Africaterphis – Dimacrocolus – Helle – Megalybus – Neophilopota – Oligoneura – Parahelle – Philopota – Quasi – Schlingeriella – Terphis – Thyllis – †Archaeterphis – †Burmophilopota – †Eulonchiella – †Hoffeinsomyia – †Prophilopota

Name

Philopotinae Schiner, 1867: 307

Type genus: Philopota Wiedemann, 1830.

References

Primary references

• Schiner, J.R. 1867. Zweiter Bericht über die von der Weltumseglungsreise der k. Fregatte Novara mitgebrachten Dipteren. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 17: 303–314. BHL. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Feng, Q., Zhuang, J., Shih, C., Ren, D. & Wang, Y. 2024. The oldest fossil record of Philopotinae (Diptera: Acroceridae) from the mid-Cretaceous amber of Northern Myanmar. Zootaxa 5497(3): 435–443. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5497.3.8 . Reference page. 
• Gillung, J.P. & Winterton, S.L. 2011. New genera of philopotine spider flies (Diptera, Acroceridae) with a key to living and fossil genera. ZooKeys 127: 15–27. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.127.1824 . Reference page. 
• Gillung, J.P. & Winterton, S.L. 2017. A review of fossil spider flies (Diptera: Acroceridae) with descriptions of new genera and species from Baltic Amber. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 16(4): 325–350. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2017.1289566 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Gillung, J.P. & Winterton, S.L. 2019. Evolution of fossil and living spider flies based on morphological and molecular data (Diptera, Acroceridae). Systematic Entomology 44(4): 820–841. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12358 . Reference page. 
• Hauser, M. & Winterton, S.L. 2007. A new fossil genus of small-headed flies (Diptera: Acroceridae: Philopotinae) from Baltic amber. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 100(2): 152–156. DOI: 10.1603/0013-8746(2007)100[152:ANFGOS]2.0.CO;2 . PDF. Reference page. 
• Hennig, W. 1966. Spinnenparasiten der Familie Acroceridae im Baltischen Bernstein. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde (165): 1–21. BHL.
• Schlinger, E.I. 1961. A review of the Acroceridae of Madagascar (Diptera). Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar (E) 12: 257–267. PDF
• Winterton, S.L., Wiegmann, B.M. & Schlinger, E.I. 2007. Phylogeny and Bayesian divergence time estimations of small-headed flies (Diptera: Acroceridae) using multiple molecular markers. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 43(3): 808–832. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.08.015

Links

• Australasian/Oceanian Diptera Catalog -- Web Version
• Species-ID