A review of the monotypic genus Chilelimnophila Alexander (Diptera: Tipulomorpha: Limoniidae)

Ribeiro, Guilherme Cunha

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“…Notholimnophila is monotypic and endemic to New Zealand; Bergrothomyia includes three species in Australia (Victoria, New South Wales) and Tasmania; Mesolimnophila has two species in south Chile; Chilelimnophila is monotypic and endemic to south Chile. Its status as a distinct genus was recently reaffirmed by Ribeiro (2007). Campbellomyia is a subgenus of Ctenolimnophila with seven species in New Zealand, two in southeast Brazil near the Atlantic margin, one species in Bolivia and Ecuador, and one in Madagascar.…”

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Neat and clear: 700 species of crane flies (Diptera: Tipulomorpha) link southern South America and Australasia

Ribeiro

Eterovic

2011

Systematic Entomology

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A biogeographical analysis of crane flies (Diptera, Tipulomorpha) in the southern hemisphere is used to test if their distribution patterns provide evidence of biogeographical homology (shared history) in the South Pacific. Crane fly distributions are interpreted in light of patterns of endemism and diversity and published phylogenetic studies. A panbiogeographical approach, assuming that repeating distribution patterns strongly suggest the existence of past connections between the areas (biogeographical homology), is used. A clear pattern is revealed in which crane fly taxa shared between southern South America, New Zealand and Australia are restricted to that region. Thirty genera and subgenera, together comprising about 700 species, occur in both South America and Australasia and only in these areas. This distribution defines the limits of the South Pacific Track, a standard biogeographical pattern displayed by many taxa, including the southern beeches (Nothofagus). Although the distribution of some taxa spans the entire track, others are present in parts of the areas only, forming a nested set of distributions. Within the surveyed genera and subgenera, all individual species are endemic to one single region or continent, suggesting vicariance as the main process behind crane fly disjunctions in this part of the world. The nested set of distribution patterns could be explained by extinctions in areas where taxa were present previously. Alternatively, it may indicate historical absences and the existence of a heterogeneous set of ancestral distributional ranges. ‘Gondwanan’ may not be the best term for the observed disjunctions, which should be labelled as trans‐Pacific instead. Recent molecular estimates of divergence times suggest a Permian origin of the earliest extant Diptera lineages such as the Tipulomorpha, followed by fast radiation in the Triassic. Although the differentiation of some crane fly groups occurring in the region may have been driven by recent Mesozoic and Cenozoic events of continental breakup, as least part of the fauna may have evolved allopatrically in response to older events. This may explain the overlapping distribution of subgenera in large genera such as Gynoplistia.

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Neat and clear: 700 species of crane flies (Diptera: Tipulomorpha) link southern South America and Australasia

Ribeiro

Eterovic

2011

Systematic Entomology

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A new species of Heterangaeus Alexander, 1925 crane flies (Diptera: Pediciidae) from north-central Mongolia with first description of the larva for the genus

Podenas

Podėnienė

Gelhaus

2014

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A new species of Pediciidae, Heterangaeus mongolicus is described from specimens collected during the fieldwork of the Mongolian Aquatic Insect Survey Project in north-central Mongolia, Tov Aimag (district). Descriptions and illustrations of the distinguishing morphological features are provided. Habitat information is presented. Female ovipositor and larvae of Heterangaeus are described and illustrated for the first time. This discovery of Heterangaeus in Mongolia represents a 1700 kilometer extension of the known distribution for the genus.

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Revisionary systematics and evolutionary ecology of Neophylidorea (Diptera: Tipuloidea)

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Crane fly systematics is wrought with difficulties at multiple hierarchical levels. The current taxonomy lacks evolutionary structure at the generic level for many groups, which may be causing incongruent phylogenetic hypotheses at the subfamilial and familial levels. Here we restructured species to describe a monophyletic genus that will in part help pave the way for more robust higher level phylogenetics. A group of 16 species is removed from the existing genus, Euphylidorea Alexander based on distinct morphology and described as the new genus Neophylidorea. Characters of the aedeagus and male genitalia in general allow for unequivocal recognition of this genus. There are few consistent differences in macroscopic or female morphology between species of Neophylidorea gen.nov.

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A review of the monotypic genus Chilelimnophila Alexander (Diptera: Tipulomorpha: Limoniidae)

Abstract: A review of the monotypic genus Chilelimnophila Alexander (Diptera: Tipulomorpha: Limoniidae). The Chilean species Chilelimnophila lyra (Alexander, 1952)

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Neat and clear: 700 species of crane flies (Diptera: Tipulomorpha) link southern South America and Australasia

Neat and clear: 700 species of crane flies (Diptera: Tipulomorpha) link southern South America and Australasia

A new species of Heterangaeus Alexander, 1925 crane flies (Diptera: Pediciidae) from north-central Mongolia with first description of the larva for the genus

Revisionary systematics and evolutionary ecology of Neophylidorea (Diptera: Tipuloidea)

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