Erebomyia

Erebomyia is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, known from the United States. Three species are known from Arizona, and one from California. The genus was first created in 2004 for Erebomyia exalloptera, a species whose males have uniquely asymmetrical wings – the left wing is larger and has a different shape compared to the right wing. The males of the remaining three species have modified but symmetrical wings.[2]

Erebomyia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Sympycninae
Genus: Erebomyia
Runyon & Hurley, 2004[1]
Type species
Erebomyia exalloptera
Runyon & Hurley, 2004[1]

Species
  • Erebomyia aetheoptera Hurley & Runyon, 2009[3]
  • Erebomyia exalloptera Runyon & Hurley, 2004[1]
  • Erebomyia inaequalis (Van Duzee, 1930)[4] (Synonym: E. akidoptera Hurley & Runyon, 2009[3])[2]
  • Erebomyia ramseyensis Hurley & Runyon, 2009[3]

References
  1. Runyon, J. B.; Hurley, R. L. (2004). "A new genus of long-legged flies displaying remarkable wing directional asymmetry". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. 271 (Supplement 3): S114–S116. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2003.0118. JSTOR 4142574. PMC 1809986.
  2. Runyon, J. B. (2010). "A new synonymy in Erebomyia (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". Pan-Pacific Entomologist. 86 (4): 139–140. doi:10.3956/2010-28.1.
  3. Hurley, R. L.; Runyon, J. B. (2009). "A review of Erebomyia (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with descriptions of three new species" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2054: 38–48.
  4. Van Duzee, M.C. (1930). "The Dipterous genus Sympycnus Loew in North America and the West Indies". Pan-Pacific Entomologist. 7: 35–47, 49–63.


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