Lonchoptera
| Lonchoptera | |
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| Lonchoptera lutea | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Lonchopteridae |
| Genus: | Lonchoptera Meigen, 1803[1] |
| Type species | |
| Lonchoptera lutea Panzer, 1809 | |
| Synonyms | |
Lonchoptera is a genus of spear-winged flies (Lonchopteridae). Their common name refers to their subacute (pointed) wings, which have a distinct and sexually dimorphic venation.
Description
[edit]Species in Lonchoptera are tiny to small, at 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in), slender, and yellow to brownish-black bristly.
The larvae are dorsally flattened, with two pairs of head bristles, and feed on rotting vegetable matter,[2] including in one case brussels sprouts.[3]
This genus can be distinguished from other spear-winged flies by several traits:[4]
Species
[edit]Species include:
- Lonchoptera africana Adams, 1905[5][6]
- Lonchoptera alfhildae Andersson, 1971[7]
- Lonchoptera anderssoni Joseph & Parui, 1976[8]
- Lonchoptera annikaae Andersson, 1971[7]
- Lonchoptera apicalis (Okada, 1935)[9]
- Lonchoptera barberi Klymko, 2008
- Lonchoptera bifurcata (Fallén, 1810)[2][9]
- Lonchoptera birmanica Andersson, 1971[7]
- Lonchoptera birmensis Andersson, 1971[7]
- Lonchoptera casanova Andersson, 1971[7]
- Lonchoptera elinorae Andersson, 1971[7]
- Lonchoptera excavata Yang & Chen, 1995[4]
- Lonchoptera fallax de Meijere, 1906[9]
- Lonchoptera hakonensis Matsumura, 1916[9]
- Lonchoptera impicta Zetterstedt, 1848[9]
- Lonchoptera japonica Matsumura, 1915[9]
- Lonchoptera kamtschatkana (Czerny, 1934)[9]
- Lonchoptera longiphallus Klymko, 2008
- Lonchoptera lutea Panzer, 1809[2][9]
- Lonchoptera maculata Smith, 1974[10]
- Lonchoptera malaisei Andersson, 1971[7]
- Lonchoptera megaloba Klymko, 2008
- Lonchoptera meijerei Collin, 1938[2][9][11]
- Lonchoptera nerana Vaillant, 1989
- Lonchoptera nevadica Vaillant, 1989
- Lonchoptera nigrociliata Duda, 1927[2][9]
- Lonchoptera nitidifrons Strobl, 1898[2][9]
- Lonchoptera occidentalis Curran, 1934
- Lonchoptera orientalis (Kertész, 1914)[4][7]
- Lonchoptera pictipennis Bezzi, 1899[9]
- Lonchoptera pinglongshanensis Dong, Pang & Yang, 2008[4]
- Lonchoptera pipi Andersson, 1971[4]
- Lonchoptera platytarsis (Okada, 1935)[9]
- Lonchoptera pseudolutea Whittington & Beuk, 2022[12]
- Lonchoptera rava Whittington, 1991[13]
- Lonchoptera sapporensis Matsumura, 1915[9]
- Lonchoptera scutellata Stein, 1890[2][9]
- Lonchoptera stackelbergi (Czerny, 1934)[9]
- Lonchoptera strobli de Meijere, 1906[9]
- Lonchoptera transvaalensis Stuckenberg, 1963[6]
- Lonchoptera tristis Meigen, 1824[2][9]
- Lonchoptera ugandensis Whittington, 1991[13]
- Lonchoptera unicolor Dong, Pang & Yang, 2008[4]
- Lonchoptera uniseta Curran, 1934
- Lonchoptera vaillanti Zwick, 2004[14]
- Lonchoptera vesperis Stuckenberg, 1963[6]
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The entomologist Andrew E. Whittington in 2024 suggested that the genera Homolonchoptera and Spilolonchoptera are junior synonyms of Lonchoptera giving the genus additional eight species [15], being the following:
- Lonchoptera brevicaudata Dong & Yang, 2013
- Lonchoptera chinica Yang, 1998
- Lonchoptera curtifurcata Yang,1998
- Lonchoptera hainanensis Gao, Zhang & Yang 2021
- Lonchoptera longisetosa Yang & Chen,1998
- Lonchoptera tautineura Yang, 1998
- Lonchoptera yangi Dong & Yang, 2013
- Lonchoptera zhejiangensis Gao,Zhang & Yang 2021
References
[edit]- ↑ Meigen, J. W. (1803). "Versuch einer neuen Gattungs-Eintheilung der europäischen zweiflügligen Insekten". Magazin für Insektenkunde. 2: 259–281.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Smith, K.G.V. (1969). "Lonchopteridae". Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects (Print). 10 (2ai). London: Royal Entomological Society of London: 9.
- ↑ Airy-Shaw, H.K. (1969). "Unusual habitat for Lonchoptera (Dipt., Lonchopteridae) larvae?". Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (Print). Vol. 105. p. 26.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Dong, Qibiao; Pang, Baoping; Yang, Ding (2008). "Lonchopteridae (Diptera) from Guangxi, Southwest China" (PDF Adobe Achrobat). Zootaxa. 1806: 59–65. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1806.1.4. Retrieved 17 September 2009.
- ↑ Adams, C.F. (1905). "Diptera Africana". Kansas University Science Bulletin (Print). 3 (6). Kansas University: 149–159?. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.8100.
- 1 2 3 Stuckenberg, B. R. (1963). "The genus Lonchoptera Meigen in Southern Africa". Journal of the Entomological Society of South Africa (Print). 26: 129–143.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Andersson, H. (1971). "Eight new species of Lonchoptera from Burma (Dipt., Lonchopteridae)". Entomologisk Tidskrift. 92 (3–4): 213–231.
- ↑ Joseph, A.N.T.; Parui, P. (1976). "A New Species of Lonchoptera Meigen (Diptera: Lonchopteridae) from India". Oriental Insects (Print). 10 (2). Calcutta: Zoological Survey of India: 291–293. doi:10.1080/00305316.1976.10434910.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Andersson, H. (1991). Soós, Á.; Papp, L. (eds.). Lonchopteridae in Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Vol. 7. Budapest, Hungary: Hungarian Natural History Museum. pp. 139–142.
- ↑ Smith, K.G.V. (1974). "A striking new species of Lonchoptera (Diptera, Lonchopteridae) from Mount Kinabalu, Borneo". Journal of Natural History (Print). 8 (2): 235–237. Bibcode:1974JNatH...8..235S. doi:10.1080/00222937400770211.
- ↑ Collin, J. E. (1938). "The British species of Lonchoptera (Diptera)". Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (Print). Vol. 74. pp. 60–65.
- ↑ Whittington, A. E.; Beuk, P. L. T. (2022). "A description of a new species of Western Palaearctic Lonchoptera Meigen (Diptera, Lonchopteridae) from Georgia". ZooNova (Print). Vol. 20. pp. 1–18.
- 1 2 Whittington, A. E. (1991). Two new Afrotropical species of Lonchoptera Meigen (Diptera: Lonchopteridae) (Print). Vol. 32. Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. pp. 205–214.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ Zwick, P. (2004). "Lonchoptera vaillanti sp. nov., a new fly from Switzerland (Diptera: Lonchopteridae)". Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Gessellschaft. 77: 133–136.
- ↑ The status of genera in the Lonchopteridae (Diptera), and new records of Lonchoptera from Taiwan Andrew E. Whittington. Zoonova, 38. 2024: