Acropsilus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Antliophora
Ordo: Diptera
Subordo: Brachycera
Infraordo: Asilomorpha
Superfamilia: Empidoidea

Familia: Dolichopodidae
Subfamilia: Tenuopodinae
Genera (1): Tenuopus
Name

Tenuopodinae Grichanov, 2018: 3

Type genus: Tenuopus Curran, 1924, by original designation.
References
Primary references

Grichanov, I.Ya. 2018. A new subfamily of Dolichopodidae (Diptera) for Tenuopus Curran, 1924 with description of new species from Tropical Africa. Far Eastern Entomologist 365: 1–25. DOI: 10.25221/fee.365.1 Open access. Reference page.

Acropsilus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.[6] It is unplaced in the family,[7] having been placed variously in subfamilies such as Sympycninae or Peloropeodinae. It is superficially similar to the Medeterinae.[8]
Species

The genus contains 30 species:[8][9][10]

Acropsilus albitibia Bickel, 1998
Acropsilus boharti Bickel, 1998
Acropsilus brevitalus (Parent, 1937)[11][9]
Acropsilus colmani Bickel, 1998
Acropsilus eburneensis Couturier, 1978[12]
Acropsilus errabundus Lamb, 1922[13]
Acropsilus guangdongensis Wang, Yang & Grootaert, 2007
Acropsilus guangxiensis Wang, Yang & Grootaert, 2007
Acropsilus igori Negrobov, 1984[14]
Acropsilus jinxiuensis Wang, Yang & Grootaert, 2007
Acropsilus kuranda Bickel, 1998
Acropsilus luoxiangensis Wang, Yang & Grootaert, 2007
Acropsilus malaita Bickel, 1998
Acropsilus maprik Bickel, 1998
Acropsilus minutulus (Vanschuytbroeck, 1951)
Acropsilus minutus Hollis, 1964
Acropsilus niger (Loew, 1869)[2]
Acropsilus nigricornis Bickel, 1998
Acropsilus olegi Grichanov, 1998[9]
Acropsilus opipara (Wei, 2006)[5]
Acropsilus perminutus (Parent, 1937)[11][9]
Acropsilus protractus Robinson, 1963
Acropsilus putosa Bickel, 1998
Acropsilus stekolnikovi Grichanov, 1998[9]
Acropsilus toma Bickel, 1998
Acropsilus udot Bickel, 1998
Acropsilus vorax (Curran, 1927)[3][4]
Acropsilus yunnanensis Wang, Yang & Grootaert, 2007
Acropsilus zengchenensis Wang, Yang & Grootaert, 2007
Acropsilus zhuae Wang, Yang & Grootaert, 2007

References

Mik, Josef (1878). "Dipterologische Untersuchungen". Jahresber. K. K. Akad. Gymnasium: 1–24, 1 pl.
Loew, Hermann (1869). Beschreibung europäischer Dipteren. Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insecten, von Johann Wilhelm Meigen. Achter Theil oder zweiter Supplementband. Vol. 1. Halle: H. W. Schmidt. pp. xvi + 310 + [2] pp.
Grichanov, Igor Ya.; Mostovski, Mike B. (2009). "Long-legged flies (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) in the collection of the Natal Museum: A review of C.H. Curran's types, new synonyms, and new combinations". Zootaxa. 2194: 37–53. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2194.1.3.
Curran, Charles Howard (1927). "Records and descriptions of South African Diptera with notes on two Wiedemann types". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 12: 181–185.
Zizhong, Li; Daochao, Jin (2006). Insects from Fanjingshan Landscape (in Chinese). Guiyang: Guizhou Science and Technology Publishing House. p. 481.
Yang, D.; Zhu, Y.; Wang, M.; Zhang, L. (2006). World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera). Beijing: China Agricultural University Press. pp. 1–704. ISBN 9787811171020.
Ulrich, J. (1980). "Zur systematischen Gliederung der Dolichopodiden (Diptera)". Bonner zoologische Beiträge. 31 (3–4): 385–402.
Bickel, D. J. (1998). "Australian, Melanesian and Micronesian Acropsilus Mik (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 141 (1): 1–17. doi:10.1163/22119434-99900001.
Grichanov, I. Ya. (1998). "Afrotropical species of the genus Acropsilus Mik (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". Dipterological Research. 9 (3): 183–190.
Wang, Mengqing; Yang, Ding; Grootaert, Patrick (2007). "Revision of the species of Acropsilus Mik (Diptera, Dolichopodidae) from China". Biologia. 62 (1): 88–94. doi:10.2478/s11756-007-0015-6. S2CID 1085290.
Parent, O. (1937). "Diptères Dolichopodides nouveaux du Congo belge et du Maroc". Bulletin du Musee d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique. 13 (18): 1–19.
Couturier, Guy (1977). "Les Diptères Doiichepodidae de Côte d'Ivoire : Description de trois nouvelles espèce" (PDF). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France. 82 (9–11): 220–224. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
Lamb, C.G (1922). "The Percy Sladen Trust expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under leadership of Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner M.A. Vol.VII. No.VIII-Diptera: Asilidae, Scenopinidae, Dolichopodidae, Pipunculidae, Syrphidae". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology. 2. 18: 361–416. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1922.tb00554.x.
Negrobov, O. V. (1984). "The genera of the family Dolichopodidae (diptera) new for the fauna of Palaearctic and USSR". Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. 63 (7): 1111–1115.