A review of the species of<i>Thambemyia</i>Oldroyd (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from China

Zhu, Yajun; Yang, Ding; Masunaga, Kazuhiro

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“…Many Hybotidae and Dolichopodidae have raptorial fore and/or mid legs with greatly modified femora and/or tibiae, and some dolichopodids have a strong spine on an apical extension of the meso-and/or metatibia and/or structures on the metabasitarsus, resembling the metatibial extension of Pouillonhybos and Syneproctus (Bickel, 1985: figs 7-8;Zhu et al, 2005;Runyon, 2008;Grichanov & Brooks, 2017). It is clear that not only various leg modifications have evolved convergently among empidoid lineages for subduing and handling prey, but such traits also appeared in the early phases of their diversification as evidence by their presence in at least one Cretaceous ocydromiine.…”

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The first predatory dance fly of the subfamily Ocydromiinae with specialized, raptorial legs in mid–Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Diptera: Hybotidae)

Ngô-Muller

Engel

Garrouste

et al. 2021

Cretaceous Research

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The first ocydromiine hybotid fly is described and illustrated from a remarkable male preserved in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar. Pouillonhybos venator, gen. et sp. nov., is distinguished from other members of the subfamily Ocydromiinae as well as other lineages of living and fossil Hybotidae. The holotype of P. venator exhibits spectacular specializations of the mid and hind legs, modifications likely linked to the grasping of prey either during capture and/or while feeding. The species reported here is the earliest evidence of significant leg modifications in Hybotidae indicating an early appearance of such specializations in the family's history.

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The first predatory dance fly of the subfamily Ocydromiinae with specialized, raptorial legs in mid–Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Diptera: Hybotidae)

Ngô-Muller

Engel

Garrouste

et al. 2021

Cretaceous Research

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First record of a Japanese marine shore dolichopodid fly, Thambemyia (= Conchopus) borealis (Takagi), from the Neotropical Region (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)

Brooks

Cumming

2009

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Thambemyia Oldroyd is a marine shore dolichopodid genus in the aphrosyline subgroup of the subfamily Hydrophorinae. The genus was erected by Oldroyd (1956) based on the greatly elongated proboscis of the Malaysian species T. pagdeni Oldroyd. Since the early 1980’s the generic limits of Thambemyia have been in flux as a result of differing opinions regarding the proposed synonymy of the related genus Conchopus Takagi, 1965 by Meuffels & Grootaert (1984). Masunaga et al. (2005) argued to retain the generic status of Conchopus in a much restricted sense (i.e., the rectus species group of Takagi), but did not provide evidence to support that classification, however later Masunaga in Zhu et al. (2005) appears to have reversed this decision. Recent catalogs have all treated Conchopus as a junior synonym of Thambemyia (Bickel & Dyte 1989; Pollet et al. 2004; Yang et al. 2006). Presently Thambemyia (sensu Meuffels & Grootaert 1984) includes 24 described species from Japan, China and the Hawaiian Islands (Yang et al. 2006). Masunaga & Saigusa (2006) reported an additional five undescribed species (as Conchopus) from the Hawaiian Islands.

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A review of the species ofThambemyiaOldroyd (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from China

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The first predatory dance fly of the subfamily Ocydromiinae with specialized, raptorial legs in mid–Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Diptera: Hybotidae)

The first predatory dance fly of the subfamily Ocydromiinae with specialized, raptorial legs in mid–Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Diptera: Hybotidae)

First record of a Japanese marine shore dolichopodid fly, Thambemyia (= Conchopus) borealis (Takagi), from the Neotropical Region (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)

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