Taxonavigation

Familia: Acroceridae
Subfamilia: Philopotinae
Genus: Africaterphis
Species (2): A. acroceroides – A. gertschi
[source: Systema Dipterorum Version 1.0. Last updated: 10 August 2010 minus A. nodosa]

Name

• Africaterphis Schlinger, 1968
  • Authority for current placement: original
    • undisputed by all subsequent authorities
  • Gender:
  • Original status: valid genus
  • Type species: Terphis acroceroides Sabrosky, 1950
    • Fixation: original designation [p. 61]

References

• Barraclough, D.A. 1984: Review of some Afrotropical Acroceridae, with descriptions of eight new species from South Africa (Diptera: Brachycera). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 47(1): 45-66.

• Gillung, J.P. & Winterton, S.L. 2011. New genera of philopotine spider flies (Diptera, Acroceridae) with a key to living and fossil genera. ZooKeys 127: 15–27. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.127.1824 . Reference page. 

• Hauser, M. & Winterton, S.L. 2007. A new fossil genus of small-headed flies (Diptera: Acroceridae: Philopotinae) from Baltic amber. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 100(2): 152–156. DOI: 10.1603/0013-8746(2007)100[152:ANFGOS]2.0.CO;2 . PDF. Reference page. 
• Schlinger, E.I. 1968: Africaterphis, a new genus for the African species of Terphis, and a redescription of the Brazilian genus Terphis Erichson (Diptera: Acroceridae). Annals of the Natal Museum, 20(1): 59–62.