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Philopotinae

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Philopotinae
Helle longirostris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Acroceridae
Subfamily: Philopotinae
Schiner, 1867[1]
Genera

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Philopotinae is a subfamily of small-headed flies. They have an arched body shape, as well as enlarged postpronotal lobes that form a collar behind the head. Their larvae are endoparasites of araneomorph spiders in the subgroup Entelegynae.[2]

Genera

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The subfamily includes twelve extant genera and four extinct:[2]

References

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  1. Sabrosky, C.W. (1999). "Family-Group Names in Diptera" (PDF). Myia. 10: 1–360. (page 242)
  2. 1 2 Gillung, Jessica P.; Winterton, Shawn L. (2019). "Evolution of fossil and living spider flies based on morphological and molecular data (Diptera, Acroceridae)". Systematic Entomology. 44 (4): 820–841. Bibcode:2019SysEn..44..820G. doi:10.1111/syen.12358.
  3. Hauser, Martin; Winterton, Shaun L. (2007). "A New Fossil Genus of Small-Headed Flies (Diptera: Acroceridae: Philopotinae) from Baltic Amber". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 100 (2): 152–156. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2007)100[152:ANFGOS]2.0.CO;2.
  4. Feng, Q.; Zhuang, J.; Shih, C.; Ren, D.; Wang, Y. (2024). "The oldest fossil record of Philopotinae (Diptera: Acroceridae) from the mid-Cretaceous amber of Northern Myanmar". Zootaxa. 5497 (3): 435–443. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5497.3.8. PMID 39647140.
  5. Osten Sacken, C.R. (1896). "A new genus of Cyrtidae (Dipt.) from New Zealand". Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 32: 16–18.
  6. Gillung, Jessica P.; Winterton, Shaun L. (2017). "A review of fossil spider flies (Diptera: Acroceridae) with descriptions of new genera and species from Baltic Amber". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 16 (4): 325–350. doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1289566. S2CID 90493326.
  7. Schlinger, Evert I.; Gillung, Jessica P.; Borkent, Christopher J. (2013). "New spider flies from the Neotropical Region (Diptera, Acroceridae) with a key to New World genera". ZooKeys (270): 59–93. Bibcode:2013ZooK..270...59S. doi:10.3897/zookeys.270.4476. PMC 3668421. PMID 23730188.
  8. 1 2 Gillung, Jéssica P.; Winterton, Shaun L. (2011). "New genera of philopotine spider flies (Diptera, Acroceridae) with a key to living and fossil genera". ZooKeys (127): 15–27. Bibcode:2011ZooK..127...15G. doi:10.3897/zookeys.127.1824. PMC 3175128. PMID 21998545.
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