Posted by pwalter on 14-06-2009 23:39
#1
Hi, I was searching in Catalogue of life, and found Marginidae with one genus, Margo, but I couldn't find any info of this. Also, there are other never-before-heard families of diptera, like Iteaphila-group, Mystacinobiidae... Are there any sources about this dipteran familes which are completely unfindable on the net?
Also, I
found this about the Mormotomyiidae, the fly family with the most restricted distribution. How could they look like? Could be really interesting, if they are relatives to hippoboscdae. Unfortunately the article does not cite references.
Posted by Paul Beuk on 15-06-2009 07:02
#2
Marginidae: small family of acalyptrate flies on the Southern hemisphere.
Iteaphila group: part of the Empidoidea.
Mystacinobiidae
Posted by xylo on 15-06-2009 07:21
#3
in addition to Paul... might be of interest.....
so long,
xylo
Marginidae
McAlpine, D. K. (1991): Marginidae, a new Afrotropical family of Diptera (Schizophora: ?Opomyzoidea). - Annals of the Natal Museum 32:167-177.
Mystacinobiidae
Holloway, B.A. (1976): A new bat-fly family from New Zealand (Diptera: Mystacinobiidae).
New Zealand journal of zoology 3:279–301.
Gleeson D.M.; Howitt R.L.J. and Newcomb R.D. (2000): The phylogenetic position of the New Zealand batfly, Mystacinobia zelandica (Mystacinobiidae: Oestroidea)
inferred from Mitochondrial 16S robosomal DNA sequence data. - Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 30:155–168.
http://www.royals...000/9.aspx
Dick, C. W. and Patterson, B. D. (2006): 11 Bat flies - obligate ectoparasites of bats. - Pp. 179-194 In: Morand, S.; Krasnov, B. R. and Poulin, R. (eds.): Micromammals and Macroparasites (From Evolutionary Ecology to Management). - Springer-Verlag, Tokyo.
http://fm1.fieldmuseum.org/aa/Files/patterso/Dick___Patterson_2006_MicromammalsMacroparasites.pdf
Mormotomyiidae
Austen, E. E. (1936): A remarkable semi-apterous fly (Diptera) found in a cave in east Africa, and representing a new family, genus, and species. - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1936: 425-431.
Iteaphila-group (Incertae sedis Empidoidea)
Sinclair, B.J. and Cumming, J.M. (2006): The morphology, higher-level phylogeny and classification of the Empidoidea (Diptera). - Zootaxa 1180: 1-172.
http://www.mapres...80p140.pdf partA
http://www.mapres...80p172.pdf partB
Posted by pwalter on 15-06-2009 08:20
#4
Thank You for both of You! The wikiedia-article was really interesting, that these 'bat-flies' are beginning to form castes. (I also read about yet another bat-flies, Chyropteromyzidae, they are Heleomyzoidea, living in guao, alsofound from Hungary so far 2 times).
The pdf articles are also nice and interesting, good to see such big cladograms of Empidoidea, since currently I'm learning for my exam about Evolution :)