Eurychoromyiinae

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: Muscomorpha
Sectio: Schizophora
Subsectio: Acalyptrata
Superfamilia: Lauxanioidea

Familia: Lauxaniidae
Subfamilia: Eurychoromyiinae
Genera (8): Choryeuromyia – Eurychoromyia – Euryhendelimyia – Eurystratiomyia – Exalla – Physegeniopsis – Roryeuchomyia – Tauridion
Name

Eurychoromyiinae Hendel, 1910

Type genus: Eurychoromyia Hendel, 1910
References

Gaimari, S.D.; Silva, V.C. 2010: Revision of the Neotropical subfamily Eurychoromyiinae (Diptera: Lauxaniidae). Zootaxa, 2342: 1–64. Preview PDF

The broad-headed flies is a subfamily of flies. Until 2010, they were known from only one species based on four specimens and placed in the family Eurychoromyiidae.

In 1903, C. A. W. Schnuse, collecting at Sarampiuni in the foothills of the Bolivian Andes, took four specimens, all female, of a fly with a strange broad, flat head. These were described as a new species Eurychoromyia mallea (ευρυς — broad; χορος — field; μυια – fly; malleus – hammer) by the Austrian entomologist Friedrich Georg Hendel. No specimens have been seen or collected since. Two of the specimens now reside in the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna. The other two specimens are in the Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde in Dresden. Hendel rated the species as "an isolated group of acalyptrate muscids". His judgement has been sustained, and they are now recognised as belonging to a distinct family Eurychoromyiidae. No other specimens have ever been identified as belonging to this family. Classification has proved difficult, the absence of any male specimens adding to the difficulties. Following Hennig (1958) they are here tentatively included in the superfamily Lauxanioidea. In 2010, Gaimari and Silva placed then as a subfamily within Lauxaniidae and added further genera, five of them new to science.[2]
Genera

Choryeuromyia Gaimari & Silva, 2010[2]
Eurychoromyia Hendel, 1910[1]
Euryhendelimyia Gaimari & Silva, 2010[2]
Eurystratiomyia Gaimari & Silva, 2010[2]
Exalla Gaimari, 2011[3]
Physegeniopsis Gaimari & Silva, 2010[2]
Roryeuchomyia Gaimari & Silva, 2010[2]
Tauridion Papp & Silva 1995[4]

References

Hendel, F. (1910). "Über acalyptrate Musciden". Wiener Entomologische Zeitung. Wien: E. Reitter. 29: 101–127. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
Gaimari, Stephen D. &; Silva, Vera C. (2010). "Revision of the Neotropical subfamily Eurychoromyiinae (Diptera: Lauxaniidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. Auckland: Magnolia Press. 2342: 1–64. ISSN 1175-5334. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
Gaimari, S.D. (2011). "An unusual new genus of eurychoromyiine Lauxaniidae (Diptera)". The Canadian Entomologist. 143: 594–611.
Papp, L.; Silva, Vera.C. (1995). "Seven new genera of the Neotropical Lauxaniidae (Diptera)". Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 41 (3): 185–208.