Alishanimyia

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: Peloropeodinae
Genus: Alishanimyia
Species (1): A. elmohardyi
Name

Alishanimyia Bickel, 2007

Type species: Alishania elmohardyi Bickel, 2004, automatic.
Synonyms

Alishania Bickel, 2004: 27 [junior homonym of Alishania Vilbaste, 1969]
Type species: Alishania elmohardyi Bickel, 2004, by original designation.
Alishanimyia Bickel, 2007: 68 [new replacement name for Alishania Bickel, 2004]

References
Primary references

Bickel, D.J. 2004. Alishania, a new genus with remarkable female terminalia from Taiwan, with notes on Chrysotimus Loew (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Bishop Museum Bulletin in Entomology 12: 27–34. PDF Reference page.
Bickel, D.J. 2007. Replacement name for Alishania Bickel, 2004 (Diptera Dolichopodidae). Zootaxa 1398: 68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1398.1.7 Paywall. Reference page.

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Alishanimyia is a genus of fly in the family Dolichopodidae.[1][3] It contains only one species, Alishanimyia elmohardyi, and is known only from montane forests at 2400 m in Taiwan. Alishanimyia is probably descended from Chrysotimus, which would make the latter genus paraphyletic.[1]

The genus was originally named Alishania by Daniel J. Bickel in 2004, named after Alishan, a locality in Taiwan where all specimens of the species were collected; however, this name was preoccupied by Alishania Vilbaste, 1969, so it was renamed to Alishanimyia by Bickel in 2007.

The specific name, elmohardyi, was named in memory of D. Elmo Hardy.[1]
References

Bickel, D. J. (2004). "Alishania, a new genus with remarkable female terminalia from Taiwan, with notes on Chrysotimus Loew (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Bishop Museum Bulletins in Entomology. Honolulu: Bishop Museum. 12: 27–34. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
Bickel, D. J (2007). "Replacement name for Alishania Bickel 2004 (Diptera Dolichopodidae)". Zootaxa. 1398: 68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1398.1.7.
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.