Medeterinae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Empidoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata 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: Medeterinae
Tribus: Medeterini – Systenini – Thrypticini – Udzungwomyiini

Genera (31 + 9†): ?Asioligochaetus – Atlatlia – Cameroonomiya – Corindia – Craterophorus – Cryptopygiella – Cyrturella – ?Demetera – Dolichophorus – Dominicomyia – †Eridanomyia – Euxiphocerus – Grootaertia – †Kashubia – Maipomyia – Medetera – ?Medeterella – †Medeterites – †Meunieromyia – Microchrysotus – Microcyrtura – Micromedetera – Neomedetera – Nikitella – †Palaeosystenus – †Paleothrypticus – Papallacta – Paramedetera – Pharcoura – Pindaia – †Plesiomedetera – Protomedetera – ?Saccopheronta – †Salishomyia – †Systenites – Systenomorphus – Systenoneurus – Systenus – Thrypticus – Udzungwomyia

Name

Medeterinae Lioy, 1864: 766

Synonyms

Systeninae Robinson, 1970: 55 [synonymized by Bickel (1986): 269]

References

Primary references

Bickel, D.J. 1986. Australian species of Systenus (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Records of the Australian Museum 38(5): 263–270. DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.38.1986.350 . Reference page.
Lioy, P. 1863–1864. I ditteri distribuiti secondo un nuovo metodo di classificazione naturale. Atti dell'Imperiale Regio 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.
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. 1986. Atlatlia, a new genus of Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from Australia. Entomologica Scandinavica 17(2): 165–171. DOI: 10.1163/187631286X00369 . Reference page.
Bickel, D.J. 1986. Thrypticus and an allied new genus, Corindia, from Australia (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Records of the Australian Museum 38(3): 135–151. DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.38.1986.179 . Reference page.
Bickel, D.J. 1992 (imprint 1991). Sciapodinae, Medeterinae (Insecta: Diptera) with a generic review of the Dolichopodidae. Fauna of New Zealand 23: 1–74. DOI: 10.7931/J2/FNZ.23 . Reference page.
Bickel, D.J. 2004. Maipomyia (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), a new genus from Chile. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 106(4): 844–850. Internet Archive BHL. Reference page.
Bickel, D.J. 2006. Papallacta (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), a new stenopterous genus from the páramo of Ecuador. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 149(2): 209–213. DOI: 10.1163/22119434-900000201 . Reference page.
Bickel, D.J. 2007. Pharcoura (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), a new genus from Chile. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 150(1): 5–12. DOI: 10.1163/22119434-900000207 . PDF. Reference page.
Bickel, D.J. 2014. Pindaia (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) a new genus from New Caledonia and Australia. In: Guilbert, É., Robillard, T., Jourdan, H. & Grandcolas, P. (eds.) Zoologia Neocaledonica 8: Biodiversity studies in New Caledonia. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 206: 209–218. ISBN 978-2-85653-707-7. Full volume (PDF). Reference page.
Bickel, D.J. & Martin, J. 2025. The pseudo-Gondwanan genus Atlatlia (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Australia, New Caledonia, and Baltic amber, with the description of two new genera. Records of the Australian Museum 77(2): 89–120. DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.77.2025.1907 . Reference page.
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Grichanov, I.Ya. 1999. A brief review of the Afrotropical fauna of the subfamily Medeterinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) with descriptions of a new genus and new species. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique Entomologie 69: 87–112. PDF Online
Grichanov, I.Ya. 2009. Systematics of the genus Euxiphocerus Parent 1935 (Diptera, Dolichopodidae). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 5(1): 127–131. DOI: 10.23885/1814-3326-2009-5-1-127-131 .
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Grichanov, I.Ya. 2018. A new genus and species of subfamily Medeterinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Tanzania. Far Eastern Entomologist 350: 9–16. DOI: 10.25221/fee.350.2 . Reference page.
Grichanov, I.Ya. 2019. Discovery of Udzungwomyia Grichanov in South Africa and definition of a new tribe, Udzungwomyiini (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Israel Journal of Entomology 49(2): 267–275. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3562003 . PDF. Reference page.
Grichanov, I.Ya. 2024. A new genus and species of subfamily Medeterinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Cameroon. Far Eastern Entomologist 495: 1–9. DOI: 10.25221/fee.495.1 . Reference page.
Grichanov, I.Ya. 2024 (2023). A New Extinct Genus of Long-Legged Flies, with a Brief Review and Key to Extinct Genera of Baltic Amber Dolichopodidae (Diptera). Paleontological Journal 57(Suppl 3): S246–S261. DOI: 10.1134/S0031030123600051 . Reference page.
Grichanov, I.Ya. 2025. Meunieromyia, a new genus of Medeterinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Eocene Baltic amber. Palaeoentomology 8(4): 359–362. DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.8.4.3 . Reference page.
Grichanov, I.Ya., Negrobov, O.P. & Selivanova, O.V. 2014. Two new genera of Medeterinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Baltic amber and some new combinations. Russian Entomological Journal 23(1): 61–70. PDF. Reference page.
Grootaert, P. & Meuffels, H.J.G. 1997. Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from Papua New Guinea. XIV. Paramedetera, a new genus in the Medeterinae. Invertebrate Taxonomy 11(2): 309–319. DOI: 10.1071/IT96001 . Reference page.
Negrobov, O.P. 1986. О системе и филогении двукрылых сем. Dolichopodidae (Diptera). [On the system and phylogeny of flies of the family Dolichopodidae (Diptera)]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie (in Russian). 65(1): 182–186. Zip-compressed PDF.
Ngô-Muller, V., Garrouste, R. & Nel, A. 2020. The oldest long-legged fly of the subfamily Medeterinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from the Early Eocene of France. Palaeoentomology 3(2): 173–179. DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.3.2.6 . Reference page.
Tang, C-F., Grootaert, P. & Yang, D. 2018. Protomedetera, a new genus from the Oriental and Australasian realms (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 743: 137–151. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.743.22696. Reference page.
Zhu, Y., Yang, D. & Grootaert, P. 2007. Neomedetera, a new genus in the subfamily Medeterinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from China. Annales zoologici 57(2): 227–230. Abstract.