Chrysotus

Chrysotus
Chrysotus gramineus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Diptera
Family:Dolichopodidae
Subfamily:Diaphorinae
Tribe:Diaphorini
Genus:Chrysotus
Meigen, 1824
Type species
Musca nigripes
Fabricius, 1794
Subgenera
  • Angiopus Meuffels & Grootaert, 1996[1]
  • Chrysotus Meigen, 1824
Synonyms

Lyroneurus Loew, 1857[2] (?)

Chrysotus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.[3] It is one of the largest genera in the subfamily Diaphorinae, with more than 460 species.[4][5]

Subgenera and species groups

The genus has two subgenera:

  • Angiopus Meuffels & Grootaert, 1996 – includes only C. halteratus[1]
  • Chrysotus Meigen, 1824 – all other species are placed in this subgenus, split into many species groups and subgroups:
    • C. albipalpus species group
    • C. cilipes species group – Palaearctic
    • C. javanensis species group
    • C. laesus species group (22 species)[6] – Palaearctic + Oriental
      • C. adunatus species subgroup (1) – includes only C. adunatus
      • C. brevicercus species subgroup (12)
      • C. nudisetus species subgroup (5)
      • C. laesus species subgroup (3)
      • C. trapezinus species subgroup (1) – includes only C. trapezinus
    • C. leigongshanus species group (59 species)[5] – China
      • C. apicibifidus species subgroup (22)
      • C. apicirotundus species subgroup (9)
      • C. apicisetosus species subgroup (9)
      • C. chishuiensis species subgroup (10)
      • C. comminus species subgroup (2)
      • C. daozhenus species subgroup (3)
      • 4 unplaced species
    • C. longipalpus species group (12 species)[7]
    • C. mediotinctus species group (5 species)[8] – South America
    • C. niger (?) species group
    • C. papuanus species group (107 species)[4] – China
      • C. abatus species subgroup (14)
      • C. abdominus species subgroup (88)
      • C. araeobasus species subgroup (3)
      • C. papuanus species subgroup (1) – includes only C. papuanus
      • C. zhuae species subgroup (1) – includes only C. zhuae
    • C. philtrum species group

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Meuffels, H.J.G.; Grootaert, P. (1996). "Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from Papua New Guinea XIII. A remarkable new subgenus in the genus Chrysotus". Bulletin & annales de la Société royale belge d'entomologie. 132 (2): 223–231. (Snippet view only)
  2. ↑ Pollet, Marc A. A.; Brooks, Scott Edward; Cumming, Jeffrey Malcolm (2004). "Catalog of the Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of America north of Mexico". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. American Museum of Natural History. 283: 1–114. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2004)283<0001:cotddo>2.0.co;2.
  3. ↑ Wang, M.; Yang, D.; Grootaert, P. (2008). "New species of Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from China". Bulletin de l’Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie. 78: 251–257.
  4. 1 2 Wei, Lianmeng; Zhang, Lei; Zhou, Zhengxiang (2014). "A review of the genus Chrysotus Meigen (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from China with definition of papuanus species group". Oriental Insects. 48 (3–4): 187–298. doi:10.1080/00305316.2015.1005960.
  5. 1 2 Wei, Lianmeng (2018). "A review of the genus Chrysotus Meigen (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from China with definition of the leigongshanus species group". Oriental Insects. 52 (sup1): 1–158. doi:10.1080/00305316.2017.1421338.
  6. ↑ Zhou, Zhengxiang; Wei, Lianmeng (2017). "Chrysotus Meigen (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from China with descriptions of five new species belonging to the Ch. laesus-group". Oriental Insects. 51 (3): 227–245. doi:10.1080/00305316.2016.1276486.
  7. ↑ Runyon, Justin B.; Capellari, Renato S. (2018). "Palpi aplenty: new species in the Chrysotus longipalpus species group (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". Zootaxa. 4399 (4): 579–585. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4399.4.8.
  8. ↑ Capellari, R. S.; Amorim, D. de S. (2014). "New combinations and synonymies for Neotropical species of Diaphorinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Contributions to Entomology - Beitrage zur Entomologie. doi:10.21248/contrib.entomol.64.2.375-381.
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