Tabanidae (Kerr, 2010)

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 : 16-18

Tabanidae ( Figs 25–27 )

Tabanids comprise more than 4,500 species, grouped into three subfamilies and 160 genera ( Morita et al. 2016; Chainey 2017). The suprageneric classification of the family proposed by Mackerras (1954) was stable for decades, until Lessard et al. (2013) and Morita et al. (2016) proposed a new arrangement based on molecular data. Studies of Chilean Tabanidae were conducted by Coscarón (1976b, 1991), Coscarón & González (1989, 1991), and González (1999, 2007, 2014, 2017). For Chile, 116 species in 25 genera are reported. The genus Dasybasis Macquart is the richest genus in Chile with 33 species. Seven genera ( Mycteromyia Philippi , Promycteromyia Coscarón & Philip , Archeomyotes Philip & Coscarón , Austromyans Philip & Coscarón , Chaetopalpus Philippi , Pseudomelpia Enderlein , and Sixtomyia Krolow, Henriques & González ), three subgenera ( Esenbeckia (Astomyia) Burger, E. ( Palassomyia ) Fairchild, and Protodasyapha (Protodasyapha) Enderlein ), and 64 species are known only from Chile ( González et al. 2022).

3. Infraorder Stratiomyomorpha

Shin et al. (2018) placed this infraorder as a sister group of Tabanomorpha , including the families Stratiomyidae , Xylomidae , and Panthophthalmidae . Only Stratiomyidae is present in Chile.

Figures

FIGURES 20–25. Xylophagomorpha and Tabanomorpha of Chile: (20) Heterostomus curvipalpis Bigot (Xylophagidae, photo by Asiel Olivares); (21) Dasyomma caeruleum Macquart (Atherecidae, photo by Matías Gargiulo); (22) Austroleptis penai Nagatomi & Nagatomi (Austroleptidae, photo by Dalton de Souza Amorim); (23) Coenura biguttatus (Philippi) (Pelecorhynchidae, photo by Ricardo Varela); (24) Atherinomorpha sp. (Rhagionidae, photo by Daniel Llavaneras); (25) Osca lata (Guerin-Méneville), larvae (Tabanidae, photo by Christian R. González).

FIGURES 26–31. Tabanomorpha (continued), Stratiomyomorpha and Nemestrinoidea of Chile: (26) Osca varia (Walker) (Tabanidae, photo by Guillermo Arenas); (27) Mycteromyia conica (Bigot) (Tabanidae, photo by Romina Lobe); (28) Exaireta longicornis James (Stratiomyidae. photo by Gabriela Germain); (29) Psellidotus elegans (Macquart) (Stratiomyidae, photo by Cristian Correa); (30) Lasia nigritarsis (Blanchard) (Acroceridae, photo by Francisco Barrera); (31) Trichophthalma barbarossa (Bigot) (Nemestrinidae, photo by Fanny Araya).