Hydrophorinae

Hydrophorus litoreus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Empidoidea

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: Empidoidea

Familia: Dolichopodidae
Subfamilia: Hydrophorinae
Tribus: Aphrosylini – Cymatopini – Epithalassiini – Hydrophorini – Hypocharassini – Thinophilini

Overview of genera

Abatetia – Acymatopus – Anahydrophorus – Aphrosylopsis – Aphrosylus – Cemocarus – Conchopus – Coracocephalus – Cymatopus – Diostracus – Epithalassius – Eucoryphus – Helichochaetus – Hydatostega – Hydrophorus – Hypocharassus – Liancalomima – Liancalus – Machaerium – Mangrovomyia – Melanderia – Minjerribah – Nanothinophilus – Oedematopiella – Oedematopus – Orthoceratium – Paraliancalus – Paraliptus – Paraphrosylus – Peodes – Rhynchoschizus – Scellus – Scorpiurus – Teneriffa – Thambemyia – Thinolestris – Thinophilus

Name

Hydrophorinae Lioy, 1864: 903

Placed on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology by Opinion 1314.

Synonyms

• Aphrosylinae Aldrich, 1905: 298 [syn. Robinson, 1970: 59]

References

Primary references

• Aldrich, J.M. 1905. A Catalogue of North American Diptera. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 46(2 [= No. 1444]): 1–680. BHL Reference page. 
• Lioy, P. 1863–1864. I ditteri distribuiti secondo un nuovo metodo di classificazione naturale. Atti dell'I. R. Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (3): 9: 187–236 (1863), 499–518, 569–604, 719–771, 879–910, 989–1027, 1087–1126, 1311–1352 (1864); 10: 59–84. Reference page. 
• Melville, R.V. 1985. Opinion 1314. Hydrophorus nebulosus Fallén, 1823, is the type species of Hydrophorus Fallén, 1823 (Insecta, Diptera). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 42(2): 162–164. BHL. Reference page. 
• Robinson, H. 1970. The subfamilies of the family Dolichopodidae in North and South America (Diptera). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 23(6): 53–62. PDF. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Bickel, D.J. 2019. Minjerribah (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), a new genus from coastal Queensland, Australia. Zootaxa 4686(4): 593–599. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4686.4.8 . Reference page. 
• Evenhuis, N.L. 2005. A review of the genera comprising species of the genus Eurynogaster sensu Hardy & Kohn, 1964 in Hawai'i (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Zootaxa 1017: 39–60. Abstract & excerpt. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1017.1.5 .
• Grichanov, I.Ya. 2008. Systematics of the genus Epithalassius Mik, 1891 (Diptera, Dolichopodidae). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 4(1): 131–136. DOI: 10.23885/1814-3326-2008-4-1-131-136 .
• Grichanov, I.Ya. 2012. Review of the genus Peodes Loew, 1857 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae, Hydrophorinae). Far Eastern Entomologist 245: 1–8. PDF
• Grichanov, I.Ya. & Gilasian, E. 2023. Mangrovomyia, a new genus of long-legged flies from Iranian mangroves (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Hydrophorinae). Zootaxa 5239(3): 395–407. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5239.3.4 . Plazi. Reference page. 
• Grootaert, P. & Meuffels, H.J.G. 1998. Description of Nanothinophilus gen. n. from mangroves in South Thailand with a revision of Paralleloneurum Becker (Insecta, Diptera, Dolichopodidae). Zoologica Scripta 27(3): 165–174. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1998.tb00434.x .
• Lamb, C.G. 1909. The Diptera of the subantarctic islands of New Zealand. Pp. 124–145. In: Chilton, C. (ed.) The subantarctic islands of New Zealand. Volume 1. Philosophical Institute of Canterbury: [Christchurch, N.Z.] BHL. Reference page. 
• Meuffels, H.J.G. & Grootaert, P. 1984. Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from Papua New Guinea I: the genus Cymatopus Kertész with a discussion on Abatetia Miller and Cemocarus gen. nov. Indo-Malayan Zoology 1(1): 141–158. PDF. Reference page. 
• Naglis, S.M. 2011. Revision of the genus Oedematopus (Diptera, Dolichopodidae) with the description of a new genus and a key to the Neotropical genera of Hydrophorinae. Zootaxa 2756: 40–52. Preview
• Pollet, M. & Stark, A. 2018. The quest for the identity of Orthoceratium lacustre (Scopoli, 1763) reveals centuries of misidentifications (Diptera, Dolichopodidae). ZooKeys 782: 49–79. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.782.26329 Reference page. 
• Pusch, M.H.E., Stark, A. & Pollet, M. 2020. Description of a new Eucoryphus species from the island of Corsica, France (Diptera: Dolichopodidae, Hydrophorinae). Zootaxa 4816(4): 527–540. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.5 . Reference page. 

Links

• Evenhius, N.L. 2016. Family Dolichopodidae. In: Evenhuis, N.L. (ed.) Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. (online version). Available at: http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/aocat/doli.html (Last accessed: 14 December 2021).