Mythicomyia (Heterhybos) Brèthes, 1919

Ramos-Pastrana, Yardany & Rojas-Portilla, Edilberto, 2024, First record of Mythicomyia Coquillett, 1983 from Colombia with description of a new species of Mythicomyia (Heterhybos) Brèthes, 1919 (Diptera: Mythicomyiidae: Mythicomyiinae) and an updated key to South American species, Zootaxa 5397 (4), pp. 539-550 : 542

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5397.4.5

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10491851

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scientific name

Mythicomyia (Heterhybos) Brèthes, 1919
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Mythicomyia (Heterhybos) Brèthes, 1919 View in CoL

Heterhybos Brèthes, 1919: 40 View in CoL (as genus of Empididae View in CoL ). Type species: Mythicomyia hyalinipennis Brèthes,1919, by original designation. View in CoL

Mythastrabes Hall & Evenhuis, 1986: 340. Type species: Mythicomyia antecessor View in CoL

Melander, 1961, by original designation (Synonymy).

Mythicomyia (Heterhybos) View in CoL : Evenhuis, 2002a: 36.

Diagnosis. Similar to that of the nominate subgenus except: males without secondary sexual character modifications on the legs (modified shapes of and notches in mid and/or hind legs and presence of pegs and large setae).

Brethes, J. (1919) Cueillette d'insects du Rio Blanco. III. Dipteres. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 23, 40 - 44.

Evenhuis, N. L. (2002 a) Catalog of the Mythicomyiidae of the world (Insecta: Diptera). Bishop Museum Bulletin in Entomology, 10, 1 - 85.

Hall, J. C. & Evenhuis, N. L. (1986) Family Bombyliidae. In: Griffiths, G. C. D. (Ed.), Flies of the Nearctic Region. Vol. V. Part 13. No. 5. E. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, pp. 321 - 592.

Melander, A. L. (1961) The genus Mythicomyia (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Wasmann Journal of Biology, 18, 161 - 261. [1960]

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Mythicomyiidae

SubFamily

Mythicomyiinae