Liancalus

Liancalus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.[2] It contains at least 21 species distributed worldwide except in Australasia and Oceania. The genus includes some of the largest species in the family, with body length approaching 12 mm in some species.[3]

Liancalus
Lianculus virens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Dolichopodidae
Subfamily:	Hydrophorinae
Genus:	Liancalus Loew, 1857[1]
Type species
Dolichopus regius (= Musca virens Scopoli, 1763) Fabricius, 1805
Synonyms
Anoplomerus Rondani, 1856 (nec Guerin-Meneville, 1844) Anoplopus Rondani, 1857

Taxonomy

Liancalus Loew, 1857 is a replacement name for Anoplomerus Rondani, 1856, which was preoccupied by a beetle genus. However, the name Liancalus is threatened by a change in type species of Anoplomerus from "Hydrophorus Regius Fabr." (now Liancalus virens (Scopoli, 1763)) to "Hydrophorus Notatus Meig." (now Scellus notatus (Fabricius, 1781)), made in an overlooked unpaginated corrigendum on the last page of Rondani, 1856, which would make Liancalus a synonym of Scellus. An application to the ICZN was made to conserve the names Liancalus and Scellus by designating Dolichopus regius Fabricius, 1805 as the type species of Anoplomerus.[3][4] This was accepted by the ICZN in 2018.[5]

Species

• Liancalus adenensis Dyte, 1967[6]
• Liancalus benedictus Becker, 1922[7]
• Liancalus decolor Parent, 1939[8]
• Liancalus dytei Negrobov, Grootaert & Coulibaly, 1987[9]
• Liancalus genualis Loew, 1861
• Liancalus glaucus Becker, 1908
• Liancalus hydrophilus Aldrich, 1893[10]
• Liancalus lasius Wei & Liu, 1995
• Liancalus limbatus Van Duzee, 1917[11]
• Liancalus lobatus Parent, 1932[12]
• Liancalus maculosus Yang, 1998[13]
• Liancalus peringueyi Curran, 1926
• Liancalus pterodactyl Runyon & Hurley, 2015[3]
• Liancalus quadrisetus Dyte, 1967[6]
• Liancalus querulus Osten Sacken, 1877[14]
• Liancalus shandonganus Yang, 1998[13]
• Liancalus similis Aldrich, 1893[10]
• Liancalus sinensis Yang, 1998[13]
• Liancalus sonorus Runyon & Hurley, 2015[3]
• Liancalus vaillanti Dyte, 1967[6]
• Liancalus virens (Scopoli, 1763)[15]
• Liancalus zhenzhuristi Negrobov, 1979[16]

References

1. Loew, Hermann (1857). "Neue Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Dipteren. Funfter Beitrag". Progr. K. Realschule Meseritz: 1–56.
2. Yang, D.; Zhu, Y.; Wang, M.; Zhang, L. (2006). World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera). Beijing: China Agricultural University Press. pp. 1–704. ISBN 9787811171020.
3. Runyon, Justin B.; Hurley, Richard L. (2015). "A revision of the Nearctic species of Liancalus Loew (Diptera, Dolichopodidae)". ZooKeys (483): 97–147. doi:10.3897/zookeys.483.9222. PMC 4351449. PMID 25755626. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
4. Runyon, J. B.; Ivie, M. A.; Evenhuis, N. L. (2015). "Case 3681: Liancalus Loew, 1857 and Scellus Loew, 1857 (Insecta, Diptera, dolichopodidae): proposed conservation of the names by designation of Dolichopus regius Fabricius, 1805 as type species for Anoplomerus Rondani, 1856". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 72 (2): 129–133. doi:10.21805/bzn.v72i2.a13.
5. ICZN (2018). "Opinion 2421 (Case 3681) – Liancalus Loew, 1857 and Scellus Loew, 1857 (Insecta, Diptera, Dolichopodidae): usage conserved". The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 75 (1): 270–274. doi:10.21805/bzn.v75.a058. The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has used its plenary power to conserve the generic names Liancalus Loew, 1857 and Scellus Loew, 1857 by designating Dolichopus regius Fabricius, 1805 as type species of Anoplomerus Rondani, 1856.
6. Dyte, C. E. (1967). "The genus Liancalus Loew (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) in the Ethiopian Region". Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B. 36 (7–8): 123–127.
7. Becker, T. (1922). "Dipterologische Studien: Dolichopodidae der Indo-Australischen Region". Capita Zoologica. 1 (4): 1–247.
8. Parent, O. (1939). "Diptères Dolichopodides de la region Ethiopienne". Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines. 32: 256–282.
9. Negrobov, OP; Grootaert, P.; Coulibaly, B. (1987). "Description d'une espece nouvelle du genre Liancalus Loew, 1857 (Diptera, Dolichopodidae) du Zaire". Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique Entomologie. 57: 157–159.
10. Aldrich, J. M. (1893). "The dolichopodid genus Liancalus Loew" (PDF). Psyche (Camb). 6 (212): 569–571. doi:10.1155/1893/26053. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
11. Van Duzee, M.C. (1917). "New North American species of Dolichopodidae (Dip.)". Entomological News. 28: 123–128. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
12. Parent, O. (1932). "Dolichopodides du l'expedition de Dr Rensch aux petites iles de la Sonde.6". Encyclopèdie Entomologique (B II) Diptera. 4: 103–123.
13. Yang, D. (1998). "New and little known species of Dolichopodidae from China (I)" (PDF). Bulletin de l'Institut royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique. Entomologie. 68: 151–164.
14. Osten Sacken, Karl Robert (1877). "Western Diptera: Descriptions of new genera and species of Diptera from the region west of the Mississippi and especially from California". [U.S. Department of the Interior] Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. 3: 189–354. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
15. Scopoli, J. A. Entomologia carniolica. Vindobonae (=Vienna): I. T. Trattner. pp. 36 + 420 + 1]pp.
16. Negrobov, O.P. (1979). "Species of the genus Liancalus (Dolichopodidae, Diptera) in South Korea and Taiwan". Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. 58: 928–931.