Taxonavigation
| Taxonavigation: Nemestrinoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Acroceridae
Subfamilia: Acrocerinae
Genus: Acrocera
Subgenera:
A. (Acrocera) –
A. (Acrocerina)
Overview of species (48)
A. altaica –
A. arizonensis –
A. ashleyi –
A. bacchulus –
A. bakeri –
A. bicolor –
A. bimaculata –
A. brasiliensis –
A. bucharica –
A. bulla –
A. cabrerae –
A. chiiensis –
A. convexa –
A. fasciata –
A. flaveola –
A. fumipennis –
A. honorati –
A. infurcata –
A. khamensis –
A. laeta –
A. lindneri –
A. londti –
A. melanderi –
A. melanogaster –
A. mongolica –
A. natalensis –
A. nigrina –
A. nigrofemorata –
A. obnubila –
A. obscura –
A. obsoleta –
A. orbicula –
A. paitana –
A. pallidivena –
A. plebeia –
A. prima –
A. rhodesiensis –
A. sanguinea –
A. sordida –
A. stansburyi –
A. stelviana –
A. subfasciata –
A. tarsalis –
A. transbaicalica –
A. trifasciata –
A. turneri –
A. unguiculata –
A. vansoni
[Sources: Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist; Kehlmaier & Almeida (2014)]
Name
Type species: Syrphus globulus Panzer, 1804 [= Syrphus orbiculus Fabricius, 1787], by monotypy.
Synonyms
- Paracrocera Mik, 1886: 276
- Type species: Acrocera tumida Erichson, 1840 [= Syrphus orbiculus Fabricius, 1787], by subsequent designation by Coquillett, 1910: 583.
References
Primary references
- Meigen, J. 1803. Versuch einer neuen Gattungseintheilung der europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten. Magazin für Insektenkunde 2: 259–281. BHL. Reference page.
Additional 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.
- Barraclough, D.A. 2000. The Acroceridae (Diptera) of Namibia, with descriptions of two new species. Cimbebasia 16: 25–30. [not seen]
- Larrivée, M. & Borkent, C.J. 2009. New spider host associations for three acrocerid fly species (Diptera, Acroceridae). Journal of arachnology 37(2): 241–242. DOI: 10.1636/T08-62.1
- Sabrosky, C.W. 1944. A revision of the American spider parasites of the genera Ogcodes and Acrocera (Diptera, Acroceridae). American Midland Naturalist 31(2): 385–413. DOI: 10.2307/2421075 . JSTOR.
- Schlinger, E.I. 1960. Additional notes on the South African Acrocerid fauna, with descriptions of new species of Acrocera Meigen and Psilodera Gray (Diptera). Annals of the Natal Museum 15(3): 57–67.
- Schlinger, E.I. 1961. New species of Acrocera from Arizona and Ocnaea from California, with synonymical notes on the genus Ocnaea (Diptera: Acroceridae). Entomological news 72: 7–12. BHL
- Schlinger, E.I. 1961. A review of the Acroceridae of Madagascar (Diptera). Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar (E) 12: 257–267. PDF
- González, C.R., Elgueta, M. & Ramírez, F. 2018. A catalog of Acroceridae (Diptera) from Chile. Zootaxa 4374(3): 427–440. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4374.3.6 Reference page.
- Kehlmaier, C. & Almeida, J.M. 2014. New host records for European Acroceridae (Diptera), with discussion of species limits of Acrocera orbiculus (Fabricius) based on DNA-barcoding. Zootaxa 3780(1): 135–152. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3780.1.5
