Ectyphinae

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:Mydidae
Subfamilia: Ectyphinae
Genera (4): Ectyphus – Heteromydas – Opomydas – Parectyphus

[source: Lyons & Dikow (2010)]
Name

Ectyphinae Wilcox & Papavero, 1971

References

Bequaert, M. 1961: Contribution a la connaissance morphologique et a la classification des Mydaidae (Diptera). Bulletin Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, 37, 1–18.
Lyons, K.M.; Dikow, T. 2010: Taxonomic revision of Ectyphus Gerstaecker, 1868 and Parectyphus Hesse, 1972 with a key to world Ectyphinae (Insecta, Diptera, Mydidae). ZooKeys, 73: 25–59. ISSN: 1313-2970 (online) ISSN: 1313-2989 (print) DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.73.840
Richter, V.A. 1997: Family Mydidae. Papp, L. & Darvas, B. (Eds.), In Contributions to a manual of Palaearctic Diptera. Volume 2. Science Herald, Budapest.
Papavero, N. and Wilcox, J. 1974: Studies of Mydidae (Diptera) systematics and evolution. I. A preliminary classification in subfamilies with the description of two new genera from the Oriental and Australian regions. Arquivos de Zoologia, São Paulo, 25, 1–60.

Ectyphinae is a subfamily of mydas flies in the family Mydidae. There are at least four genera in Ectyphinae.[1][2]
Genera

These genera belong to the subfamily Ectyphinae:[3]

Ectyphus Gerstaecker, 1868 (South Africa)
Heteromydas Hardy, 1945 (Mexico and the United States)
Opomydas Curran, 1934 (Mexico and the United States)
Parectyphus Hesse, 1972 (Namibia)

References

"Ectyphinae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
"Ectyphinae subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-05-06.

Dikow, Torsten (2019). "Asiloid Flies, deciphering their diversity and evolutionary history". National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2019-06-02.