Acridophagus flaviscutellaris

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Asiloidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Antliophora Ordo: Diptera Subordo: Brachycera Infraordo: Asilomorpha Superfamilia: Asiloidea

Familia: Mythicomyiidae
Subfamilia: Psiloderoidinae
Genus: Acridophagus
Species: Acridophagus flaviscutellaris

Name

• Acridophagus flaviscutellaris (Roberts, 1929)
  • Authority for current placement: original, with objective replacement of Cyrtomorpha with Acridophagus, but claimed also by Evenhuis, 1989: 360 ('N. comb.')
    • undisputed by all subsequent authorities
  • Original combination: Cyrtomorpha flaviscutellaris
  • Original genus: Cyrtomorpha White, 1916
  • Original status: valid species
  • Primary type: holotype
    • Fixation: designated
    • Description: [adult] female
    • Repository: 'Macleay Museum'
  • Type locality: 'Swan River, W. Aust.'

References

Primary references

• Roberts, F.H.S. 1929: A revision of the Australian Bombyliidae (Diptera). III. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 54: 553–583. BHL [first availability, see p. 566]

Additional references

• Evenhuis, N.L. 1989: 40. Family Bombyliidae. Pp. 359-374 in Evenhuis, N.L. (ed.) Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. Honolulu and Leiden: Bishop Museum Press and E.J. Brill. PDF
• Evenhuis, N.L. 2002: Catalog of the Mythicomyiidae of the world. Bishop Museum bulletin in entomology, (10) PDF [see p. 17]
• Fuller, M.E. 1938: Notes on Trichopsidea oestracea (Nemestrinidae) and Cyrtomorpha flaviscutellaris (Bombyliidae) - two dipterous enemies of grasshoppers. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 63: 95–104. BHL
• Jenkins, C.F.H. 1940: The small plague grasshopper (Austroicetes cruciata Sauss.) with some notes on egg parasites occurring in Western Australia. Journal of Agriculture, Western Australia Department of Agriculture (2), 17: 234–240. [not seen]
• Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Evenhuis, N.L. 2008. A new species of Psiloderoides Hesse (Diptera: Mythicomyiidae) from the Brandberg Massif, Namibia. African Entomology 16(1): 122–126. DOI: 10.4001/1021-3589-16.1.122 . Reference page.  [see p. 126]

Links

• Evenhuis, N.L. 2007 Family Mythicomyiidae. In: Evenhuis, N.L. (ed.), Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. (online version). Available at: http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/aocat/mythico.html. Last accessed: 23/02/2012
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