Scorpiurus (Dolichopodidae)

Female Scorpiurus aramoana photographed in situ on mudflats at Aramoana

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
Genus: Scorpiurus
Species (3): S. aenescens – S. aramoana – S. thorpei

Name

Scorpiurus Parent, 1933: 357

Type species: Scorpiurus aenescens Parent, 1933, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Parent, O. 1932. Contribution à la faune diptérologique (Dolichopodidae) d'Australie-Tasmanie. Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles (B) (Mémoirs) 52: 105–176. [Not seen, unavailable name]
• Parent, O. 1933. Étude monographique sur les Diptères Dolichopodides de Nouvelle-Zélande. Annales de la Société scientifique de Bruxelles (B) 53(2): 325–441. Reference page.  [See p. 357]

Additional references

• Bickel, D.J. & Kerr, D.S. 2018. Scorpiurus aramoana (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), a new species from New Zealand. Zootaxa 4422(1): 78–84. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4422.1.4 Reference page. 
• Masunaga, K. 2017. Saltmarsh flies of the genus Scorpiurus Parent from New Zealand (Insecta: Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Zootaxa 4324(3): 581–591. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4324.3.11 . 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.