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Apsilocephalidae

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Apsilocephalidae
Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent
male specimen of Apsilocephala, from Nevada, USA
Apsilocephalidae wing venation
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Superfamily: Asiloidea
Family: Apsilocephalidae
Nagatomi et al., 1991
Genera
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Apsilocephalidae is a family of flies in the superfamily Asiloidea. It was historically treated as a subfamily within Therevidae, but placed in a separate family in 1991, and subsequently recognized as more distantly related. The family contains three extant genera and at least five extinct genera described from the fossil record.

Genera

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These six genera belong to the family Apsilocephalidae:

The Burmese amber genus Kuhwahldyia described in 2019 is suggested to be a relative of the family.[6]

Therevoid clade

 Therevoid clade 

Apsilocephalidae

References

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  1. ^ "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System". Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  2. ^ a b c "Browse Apsilocephalidae". Catalogue of Life. Archived from the original on 2021-06-08. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Apsilocephalidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  4. ^ "Apsilocephalidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  5. ^ a b Zhang, Q.; Li, X.; Xu, B.; Zhu, Y.; Lu, R.; Wang, B.; Yeates, D. K. (2018). "Two new genera of Apsilocephalidae from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber". Cretaceous Research. 84: 525–532. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2017.11.026. hdl:1885/139188.
  6. ^ Mónica M. Solórzano Kraemer; Jeffrey M. Cumming (2019). "New genera of brachyceran flies (Diptera: Xylomyidae and Apsilocephalidae sensu auctorum) from mid-Cretaceous Hukawng Valley Burmese amber". Palaeoentomology. 2 (3): 251–261. doi:10.11646/palaeoentomology.2.3.10.
  • Nagatomi, A.; Saigusa, Toyohei; Nagatomi, Hisako & Lyneborg, L. (1991): Apsilocephalidae, a new family of orthorrhaphous Brachycera (Insecta, Diptera). Zoological Science (Tokyo) 8(3): 579-591.
  • Nagatomi, A.; Saigusa, T.; Nagatomi, H. & Lyneborg, L.. 1991. The systematic position of the Apsilocephalidae, Rhagionempididae, Protempididae, Hilarimorphidae, Vermileonidae and some genera of Bombyliidae (Insecta, Diptera). Zool. Science 8:593-607.
  • The genitalia of the Apsilocephalidae (Diptera). Japanese Journal of Entomology. 59. 409-423.
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