Dubius (fly)

Dubius is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, with seven species distributed in southern China and another five in the Neotropical realm. The genus name is from the Latin word dubius, referring to the variance of frons. The genus was first established by Wei Lian-Meng in 2012, including a group of species from the Neotropical realm previously placed in Chrysotus, as well as five newly described species from China.[1] According to some researchers, all of the Neotropical species should be kept in Chrysotus, as their transfer to Dubius was unwarranted.[2][3]

Dubius
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Diaphorinae
Genus: Dubius
Wei, 2012[1]
Type species
Dubius curtus
Wei, 2012

Species

Chinese species:

  • Dubius autumnalus Wei, 2012[1]
  • Dubius curtus Wei, 2012[1]
  • Dubius flavipedus Liu, Wang & Yang, 2015[4]
  • Dubius frontus Wei, 2012[1]
  • Dubius hongyaensis Wei, 2012[1]
  • Dubius succurtus Wei, 2012[1]
  • Dubius yunnanensis Liu, Wang & Yang, 2015[4]

Neotropical species (now transferred back to Chrysotus):[2][3]

References
  1. Wei, L. M. (2012). "The evolutionary significance on fr/fa ratio of Chrysotus Meigen (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Diaphorinae), with descriptions of one new genus and five new species". Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica. 37 (2): 611–622.
  2. Capellari, R. S.; Amorim, D. de S. (2014). "New combinations and synonymies for Neotropical species of Diaphorinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Contributions to Entomology. doi:10.21248/contrib.entomol.64.2.375-381.
  3. Runyon, Justin B. (2020). "The Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of Montserrat, West Indies". ZooKeys. 966: 57–151. doi:10.3897/zookeys.966.55192.
  4. Liu, Ruosi; Wang, Mengqing; Yang, Ding (2015). "Two New Species of Genus Dubius (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from China". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 141 (1): 71–79. doi:10.3157/061.141.0107. JSTOR 43682020.
  5. Robinson, Harold (1975). "Bredin-Archbold-Smithsonian Biological Survey of Dominica. The Family Dolichopodidae with Some Related Antillean and Panamanian Species (Diptera)". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 185: 1–141. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.185. hdl:10088/5375.
  6. Parent, O. (1930). "Espèces nouvelles de Dolichopodides (Diptères) conservées au Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris". Annales de la Société scientifique de Bruxelles. B. 50: 86–115.
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