Sphaeroceridae, Macquart, 1835

Barahona-Segovia, Rodrigo M., Madriz, Isaí, González, Christian R. & Amorim, Dalton De Souza, 2024, An update on the knowledge and general understanding of the Chilean Diptera diversity, Zootaxa 5518 (1), pp. 1-87 : 39

Sphaeroceridae ( Figs. 105–106 )

The sphaerocerids worldwide comprise over 1,550 species, grouped into six subfamilies and 144 genera ( Marshall et al. 2011), three of which are restricted to the Neotropical Region: Archiborborinae ( Kits et al. 2013) , Tucminae ( Marshall 1996) and Homalomitrinae ( Roháček & Marshall 1998) . The most important contributions to the knowledge of the family in Chile were made by Buck & Marshall (2009), Kits & Marshall (2011), and Marshall et al. (2011). There are 15 genera and 62 species presently known from Chile.

Figures

FIGURES 105–110. Sphaeroceridae (continued) and Opomyzoidea of Chile: (105) Antrops annulatus (Richards) and (106) Frutillaria sp. (Sphaeroceridae, both photos by Claudio Maureira); (107) Liriomyza cf. huidobrensis (Blanchard) (Agromyzidae, photo by Ricardo Varela); (108) Cerodontha flavifrons (Philippi) (Agromyzidae, photo by Dalton de Souza Amorim); (109) Apiochaeta similis (Malloch) (Clusiidae, photo by Diego Gutiérrez), and (110) Schizostomyia cf. atra Malloch (Paraleucopidae, photo by Matías Gargiulo).