Posted by Jan Willem on 21-06-2006 22:34
#9
Hi,
Paul Asked:
what is the status of Palloptera in its broad sense and the situation with all the separate smaller genera?
In the British checklist is stated:
McAlpine recognised the splitting of Palloptera into several genera, the British species being assigned to Palloptera, Temnosira Enderlein and Toxoneura Macquart. These genera were based on chaetotactic characters which did not lead to natural groups, so are not accepted here.
Well I have to admit that I have my doubts about the generic devision proposed by McAlpine and therefor prefer placing the species of these genera all in the genus
Palloptera (with the exeption of
Eurygnathomyia bicolor), like is done in the British checklist. Apparently several dipterists think otherwise because the generic division of McAlpine is followed by many of them.
I have to admit though that to form a good opinion about this I would really need to study a lot of specimens much more serious than I have done yet (which would not be a bad idea if I had the time to do so!).
Jan Willem