Apystomyia

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: Asiloidea

Familia: Apystomyiidae
Genus: Apystomyia
Species (1): A. elinguis
Name

Apystomyia Melander, 1950

Primary references

Melander, A.L. 1950: Taxonomic notes on some smaller Bombyliidae (Diptera). Pan-Pacific entomologist, 26: 139–156. [not seen]

Apystomyia is a genus of flies in the family Apystomyiidae. The genus contains the single living Apystomyiidae species, Apystomyia elinguis, which is primarily found in California. Details of its life history are largely unknown. The extinct genus Hilarimorphites is known from the Cretaceous Burmese and New Jersey ambers.[1] Formerly placed in the Asiloidea, molecular phylogenetic studies in 2010 placed the genus unambiguously as a sister of the Cyclorrhapha within the clade Eremoneura.[2][3]
References

Grimaldi, David; Arillo, Antonio; Cumming, Jeffrey; Hauser, Martin (2011-11-21). "Brachyceran Diptera (Insecta) in Cretaceous ambers, part IV: Significant New Orthorrhaphous Taxa". ZooKeys (148): 293–332. doi:10.3897/zookeys.148.1809. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 3264415. PMID 22287902.
Trautwein, Michelle D.; Wiegmann, Brian M.; Yeates, David K. (2010). "A multigene phylogeny of the fly superfamily Asiloidea (Insecta): Taxon sampling and additional genes reveal the sister-group to all higher flies (Cyclorrhapha)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 56 (3): 918–930. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.04.017. PMID 20399874.
Shin, Seunggwan; Bayless, Keith M.; Winterton, Shaun L.; Dikow, Torsten; Lessard, Bryan D.; Yeates, David K.; Wiegmann, Brian M.; Trautwein, Michelle D. (2018). "Taxon sampling to address an ancient rapid radiation: A supermatrix phylogeny of early brachyceran flies (Diptera)". Systematic Entomology. 43 (2): 277–289. doi:10.1111/syen.12275.