Asymphyloptera Collin, 1933

Ramos-Pastrana, Yardany, Córdoba-Suarez, Eric & Sinclair, Bradley J., 2023, Two new species of Asymphyloptera Collin (Diptera: Empididae: Clinocerinae) from Colombia, with an updated key to males of New World species, Zootaxa 5374 (3), pp. 437-444 : 438

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5374.3.8

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DEE04C52-B672-4E62-A62B-390E982BB932

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10168993

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D530EC17-0255-4A6E-ADA3-FC325E7BFA67

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Plazi

scientific name

Asymphyloptera Collin
status

 

Asymphyloptera Collin View in CoL

Asymphyloptera Collin, 1933: 323 View in CoL .

Type species: A. discrepans Collin, 1933 View in CoL , by original designation.

Diagnosis. [adapted from Sinclair (2015)]. Very small size (wing length <2.5 mm); face broad with distinct clypeus; postpedicel globular with long, slender apical extension; mouthparts narrow with palpus elongate and narrowly pointed, appressed to proboscis; unusual wing venation, where R 2+3 is branched and the upper crossvein of cell dm (= base of M 2) is absent; cercus with anterior and posterior lobes (rarely anterior lobe absent); epandrium narrow, with elongated setae apically; surstylus with acute apex (rarely flattened or rounded); phallus straight or arched, mainly membranous apically.

Distribution. In Australasia, this genus is known from Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand and Philip Island (Norfolk) ( Sinclair 1995). In the New World, this genus is recorded from Chile, Colombia (new record), Costa Rica, Dominica, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and USA (Arizona). The genus is also known from Puerto Rico ( Cumming & Sinclair 2009), but the specimens have not been re-located ( Sinclair 2015).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Empididae

Loc

Asymphyloptera Collin

Ramos-Pastrana, Yardany, Córdoba-Suarez, Eric & Sinclair, Bradley J. 2023
2023
Loc

Asymphyloptera

Collin, J. E. 1933: 323
1933
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