Microphorinae

Microphor holosericeus, female

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: Microphorinae
Genera: Microphor – Schistostoma – ?†Avenaphora – †Curvus – †Meghyperiella – ?†Microphorites – ?†Pristinmicrophor

Name

Microphorinae Collin, 1960

Synonymy

• Microphorinae Collin, 1960: 393
• Microphoridae: Chvála, 1983: 85, 243

References

Primary references

• Chvála, M. 1983. The Empidoidea (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Part II. General Part. The families Hybotidae, Atelestidae and Microphoridae. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 12. Brill. 279 pp. ISBN 978-87-87-49107-5. [not seen]
• Collin, J.E. 1960. Some Empididae from Palestine. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1959) (13) 2: 385–420. DOI: 10.1080/00222935908650872 .

Additional references

• Badano, D., Sinclair, B.J., Zhang, Q., Palermo, F., Pieroni, N., Maugeri, L., Fratini, M. & Cerretti, P. 2023. New Cretaceous empidoids and the Mesozoic dance fly revolution (Diptera: Empidoidea). Cladistics 39(4): 337–357. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12536 . Reference page. 
• Brooks, S.E. & Cumming, J.M. 2022. Revision of the Nearctic Microphorinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae sensu lato). Zootaxa 5095(1): 1–141. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5095.1.1 . Reference page. 
• Chvála, M. 1986. Revision of Palaearctic Microphoridae (Diptera) 1. Microphor Macq. Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca 83(6): 432–454. Online
• Chvála, M. 1987. Revision of Palaearctic Microphoridae (Diptera) 2. Schistostoma Beck. Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca 84(2): 133–155. Online
• Hennig, W. 1971. Insektenfossilien aus der unteren Kreide. III. Empidiformia (,Microphorinae') aus der unteren Kreide und aus dem Baltischen Bernstein; ein Vertreter der Cyclorrhapha aus der unteren Kreide. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde (231): 1–28. BHL.
• Shamshev, I.V. & Perkovsky, E.E. 2022. A review of fossil taxa of Microphorinae (Diptera, Dolichopodidae sensu lato), with redescription of the Eocene genus Meghyperiella Meunier. Zootaxa 5150(3): 411–427. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5150.3.6 . ResearchGate . Plazi. Reference page. 
• Sinclair, B.J. & Cumming, J.M. 2006. The morphology, higher-level phylogeny and classification of the Empidoidea (Diptera). Zootaxa 1180: 1–172. Abstract & excerpt. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1180.1.1. PDF A, PDF B. Reference page.