Ahercostomus

Ahercostomus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Diptera
Family:Dolichopodidae
Subfamily:Dolichopodinae
Genus:Ahercostomus
Yang & Saigusa, 2001[1]
Species: A. jiangchenganus
Binomial name
Ahercostomus jiangchenganus
(Yang & Saigusa, 2001)[1]
Synonyms

Hercostomus (Ahercostomus) jiangchenganus Yang & Saigusa, 2001

Ahercostomus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.[2] It currently contains only one species, Ahercostomus jiangchenganus, known only from China.[1] Ahercostomus was originally created as a subgenus of Hercostomus; it was later promoted to genus rank by Zhang & Yang (2005).[3]

The specific name refers to the type locality, Jiangcheng, which is located in the Yunnan province of China.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Yang, D.; Saigusa, T. (2001). "New and little known species of Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from China (XI)" (PDF). Bull. Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg. Ent. 71: 237–256.
  2. ↑ Yang, D.; Zhu, Y.,; Wang, M.; Zhang, L. (2006). World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera). Beijing: China Agricultural University Press. pp. 1–704. ISBN 9787811171020.
  3. ↑ Zhang, L.-L; Yang, D. (2005). "A study on the phylogeny of Dolichopodinae from the Palaearctic and Oriental realms, with descriptions of three new genera (Diptera, Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Acta Zootaxomica Sinica. 30: 180–190.


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