Prohercostomus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Empidoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata 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: Dolichopodinae
Genus: †Prohercostomus
Species: †P. bickeli – †P. ciliatus – †P. devinctus – †P. gracilis – †P. interceptus – †P. meunierianus – †P. minutus – †P. monotonus – †P. morbosus – †P. negotiosus – †P. noxialis – ?†P. intremulus – ?†P. inumbratus

Name

Prohercostomus Grichanov, 1997: 82 (as subgenus of Hercostomus)

Type species: Dolichopus noxialis Meunier, 1907, by original designation.

References

Primary references

• Grichanov, I.Ya. 1997. Prohercostomus, a new subgenus of the genus Hercostomus Loew (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Baltic amber. Paleontologicheskii zhurnal 5: 82–85 (in Russian). [Engl. transl.: Paleontological Journal 1997. 31(5): 520–522. Online.].
• Grichanov, I.Ya. 2000. Notes on Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from Ukrainian and Baltic amber. International Journal of Dipterological Research 11(3): 129–131. Online. [new status]

Additional references

• Bickel, D.J., Martin, J., Agnihotri, P. & Singh, H. 2022. Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from the Eocene amber deposits of Cambay and Kutch Basins, India. Palaeoentomology 5(5): 475–486. DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.5.9 . ResearchGate . Plazi. Reference page.  [Sympycnites placed in synonymy with Prohercostomus]
• 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. A review of the genus Palaeomedeterus Meunier, 1895 from Eocene Baltic amber with the description of three new species. Palaeontologia Electronica 28(3): a41. DOI: 10.26879/1562 . Reference page.  [Sympycnites synonymized instead with Palaeomedeterus]

Links

• Evenhius, N.L. 2014. Family Dolichopodidae. In: Catalog of the fossil flies of the world (Insecta: Diptera) website. Available at: https://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/fossilcat/fossdolicho.html. Version 2.0.