Pseudohercostomus

Pseudohercostomus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is distributed in the Oriental and Afrotropical realms as well as Chile.

Pseudohercostomus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: incertae sedis
Genus: Pseudohercostomus
Stackelberg, 1931[1]
Type species
Pseudohercostomus echinatus

Historically, the genus has generally been placed in the subfamily Dolichopodinae. In 2005, based on a cladistic analysis of the subfamily, Scott E. Brooks excluded Pseudohercostomus from the Dolichopodinae. The systematic position of the genus is still unclear, though a possible relationship with the New World genus Keirosoma has been suggested.[2]

Species

The genus contains five species:[3]

  • Pseudohercostomus allini Negrobov, 1988 – Chile
  • Pseudohercostomus congoensis Grootaert & Van de Velde, 2021 – DR Congo; Mozambique
  • Pseudohercostomus echinatus Stackelberg, 1931 – Java, Indonesia
  • Pseudohercostomus sinensis Yang & Grootaert, 1999[4] – China (Yunnan)
  • Pseudohercostomus singaporensis Grootaert & Van de Velde, 2021 – Singapore; Cambodia

References
  1. Stackelberg, A. A. (1931). "Dolichopodidae der Deutschen Limnologischen Sunda-Expedition". Arch Hydrobiol Suppl Bd Tropische Binnengewasser(Suppl.). 8: 771–782.
  2. Brooks, Scott E. (2005). "Systematics and phylogeny of Dolichopodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 857: 1–158. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.857.1.1.
  3. Grootaert, Patrick; Van de Velde, Isabella (2021). "Understanding the tangled taxonomy of the genus Pseudohercostomus Stackelberg, 1931 (Insecta: Diptera: Dolichopodidae) with description of new species from Singapore and DR Congo" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 69: 324–335. doi:10.26107/RBZ-2021-0055.
  4. Yang, D.; Grootaert, P. (1999). "Dolichopodidae (Diptera: Empidoidea) from Xishuangbanna (China, Yunnan province): the Dolichopodinae and the genus Chaetogonopteron (I)" (PDF). Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique. Entomologie. 69: 251–277.


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