The Chinese Species and the World Genera of Vermileonidae (Diptera)

Nagatomi, Akira; Yang, Chi-kung; Yang, Ding

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“…Except for the similarity in the hunting method, antlions and wormlions share a similar natural history: the larvae occur in loose soil and are long‐lived (a year or even longer); the pupae last about a month and the adults are short‐lived and weak fliers (Wheeler 1930; Nagatomi et al . 1999; Dor et al . 2014).…”

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“…It likely evolved only once in the antlion common ancestor (Badano et al 2016). Wormlions belong to a small family in the order Diptera and all dig pits, in contrast to any other fly species (Nagatomi et al 1999). Except for the similarity in the hunting method, antlions and wormlions share a similar natural history: the larvae occur in loose soil and are longlived (a year or even longer); the pupae last about a month and the adults are short-lived and weak fliers (Wheeler 1930;Nagatomi et al 1999;Dor et al 2014).…”

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“…Wormlions belong to a small family in the order Diptera and all dig pits, in contrast to any other fly species (Nagatomi et al 1999). Except for the similarity in the hunting method, antlions and wormlions share a similar natural history: the larvae occur in loose soil and are longlived (a year or even longer); the pupae last about a month and the adults are short-lived and weak fliers (Wheeler 1930;Nagatomi et al 1999;Dor et al 2014). Both have a broad diet but mostly prey on ants (Simon 1988;Skevington & Dang 2002), as indicated also by the contents of artificial traps placed next to areas populated by antlions and wormlions (Bar-Ziv et al 2018;Turza et al 2020).…”

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Behavioral differences between pit‐building antlions and wormlions suggest limits to convergent evolution

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Scharf

2022

Integr. Zool.

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Antlions and wormlions are distantly related insect taxa, both digging pits in loose soil and ambushing arthropod prey. Their hunting method, which is rare in the animal kingdom, is a clear example of convergent evolution. There is little research directly comparing the 2 pit-building taxa. Using the same experimental platform to investigate how they respond to biotic and abiotic environmental factors enables an examination of their convergence and its limits. We investigated the response of antlions and wormlions to 3 factors common in their daily life: disturbance to the pits, prey arrival, and conspecific competitors. Although both increased the pit size following disturbance, wormlions increased it faster than antlions. Antlions responded to prey faster than wormlions, but wormlions improved their response time over days. The most diverging response was toward conspecifics. Whereas antlions relocated their pits fast in response to increasing conspecific density, wormlions never relocated. We suggest explanations for the behavioral differences between the taxa. Our results imply that despite the similar hunting method of the 2 taxa they may differ greatly in their behavior, which in turn might have consequences for their habitat use and population dynamics.

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Behavioral differences between pit‐building antlions and wormlions suggest limits to convergent evolution

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2022

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Discovered in our backyard: a new genus and species of a new family from the Rocky Mountains of North America (Diptera, Tabanomorpha)

Zloty

Sinclair

Pritchard

2005

Systematic Entomology

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A new genus of the Tabanomorpha, Oreoleptis, gen.n., assigned to the monotypic family Oreoleptidae, fam.n., is described from the Rocky Mountains of North America. The male, female, larva and pupa of Oreoleptis torrenticola, sp.n. are described and illustrated. Adults were reared from larvae collected from torrential streams and rivers, and from pupae collected from riverbanks. No adults have been collected yet in the field. The larvae have two pairs of very long, ventrolateral, crocheted prolegs on abdominal segments 2-7, and a short, dorsal pair on segments 6-7. The larval head and mouthparts resemble those of athericids and tabanids. The mandibular hook has an internal canal, the basal mandibular sclerite is compressed with both condyles coming together and articulating on the tentorial phragma; the mandibular brush is located on a vertical rod; and the salivary pump is greatly enlarged. The adult male genitalia have aedeagal tines similar to athericids, tabanids and Bolbomyia Loew, the hypandrium is fused with the gonocoxites, the epandrium is subrectangular, lying flat on the gonocoxites, and tergite 10 is present (a mixture of advanced and primitive features). The endoaedeagal process is reduced (as in athericids), and the gonocoxal apodemes are long and slender, an advanced condition shared by athericids and tabanids. The female has a long, extrusible postabdomen and ovipositor, two-segmented cerci, and the basal cercal segment has a prominent posteroventral lobe, typical of rhagionids and pelecorhynchids. Cladistic analysis assigns the genus Oreoleptis to sister group status of the Athericidae þ Tabanidae. However, wing venation, simple, unmodified female abdomen, undivided first tergite, and two-segmented female cercus, excludes this taxon from the Athericidae and Tabanidae. The relationships of the new family are discussed and the phylogeny of the higher Tabanomorpha reassessed.

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A new genus and species of Vermileonidae (Diptera: Brachycera) from Madagascar

Stuckenberg¹

2002

Tijdschr Entomol

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The Chinese Species and the World Genera of Vermileonidae (Diptera)

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Behavioral differences between pit‐building antlions and wormlions suggest limits to convergent evolution

Behavioral differences between pit‐building antlions and wormlions suggest limits to convergent evolution

Discovered in our backyard: a new genus and species of a new family from the Rocky Mountains of North America (Diptera, Tabanomorpha)

A new genus and species of Vermileonidae (Diptera: Brachycera) from Madagascar

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