Prohercostomus

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: Dolichopodinae
Genus: †Prohercostomus
Species: †P. bickeli – †P. ciliatus – †P. devinctus – †P. gracilis – †P. interceptus – †P. meunierianus – †P. minutus – †P. monotonus – †P. morbosus – †P. negotiosus – †P. noxialis – ?†P. intremulus – ?†P. inumbratus

Name

Prohercostomus Grichanov, 1997: 82 (as subgenus of Hercostomus)

Type species: Dolichopus noxialis Meunier, 1907, by original designation.

Synonyms

• Sympycnites Grimaldi & Cumming, 1999: 67 [syn.: Bickel et al., 2022]
  • Type species: Sympycnites primaevus Grimaldi & Cumming, 1999 [= Dolichopus noxialis Meunier, 1907], by original designation [and monotypy].

References

Primary references

• Bickel, D.J., Martin, J., Agnihotri, P. & Singh, H. 2022. Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from the Eocene amber deposits of Cambay and Kutch Basins, India. Palaeoentomology 5(5): 475–486. DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.5.9 . Plazi. Reference page. 
• Grichanov, I.Ya. 1997. Prohercostomus, a new subgenus of the genus Hercostomus Loew (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Baltic amber. Paleontologicheskii zhurnal 5: 82–85 (in Russian). [Engl. transl.: Paleontological Journal 1997. 31(5): 520–522. Online.].
• Grichanov, I.Ya. 2000. Notes on Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from Ukrainian and Baltic amber. International Journal of Dipterological Research 11(3): 129–131. Online. [new status]
• Grichanov, I.Ya. 2024 (2023). A New Extinct Genus of Long-Legged Flies, with a Brief Review and Key to Extinct Genera of Baltic Amber Dolichopodidae (Diptera). Paleontological Journal 57(Suppl 3): S246–S261. DOI: 10.1134/S0031030123600051 . Reference page. 
• Grimaldi, D.A. & Cumming, J.M. 1999. Brachyceran Diptera in Cretaceous ambers and Mesozoic diversification of the Eremoneura. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 239: 1–124. hdl: 2246/1583 . 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.