Vetimicrotes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Peloropeodinae
Genus: Vetimicrotes
Dyte, 1980[1]
Type species
Microtes mediterraneus
Becker, 1918[2]
Synonyms

Microtes Becker, 1918[2]
(nec Scudder, 1900)

Vetimicrotes is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.[3] It is distributed in the Palaearctic realm. The genus was originally named Microtes by Theodor Becker in 1918. Afterwards, the name was found to be preoccupied by the grasshopper genus Microtes (Scudder, 1900), so it was renamed to Vetimicrotes by C. E. Dyte in 1980.[1]

The genus was originally included in the subfamily Sympycninae, and it has since been placed either in the Dolichopodidae or Peloropeodinae. A cladistic analysis of Dolichopodinae by Scott E. Brooks in 2005 indicated that Vetimicrotes did not belong to it, though the systematic position of the genus within the family Dolichopodidae was still unclear.[4]

Species

References

  1. 1 2 Dyte, C. E. (1980). "Some replacement names in the Dolichopodidae (Diptera)". Ent. Scand. 11 (2): 223–224. doi:10.1163/187631280X00545.
  2. 1 2 3 Becker, Theodor (1918). "Dipterologische Studien. Dolichopodidae Dritter Teil". Nova Acta der Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Akademie der Naturforscher. 104: 35–214.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Brooks, Scott E. (2005). "Systematics and phylogeny of Dolichopodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 857: 1–158. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.857.1.1.
  5. ↑ Grichanov, I.Ya. (2011). "New species and new records of Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from Astrakhan Region of Russia" (PDF). Russian Entomological Journal. 20 (1): 75–80. doi:10.15298/rusentj.20.1.06.
  6. ↑ Negrobov, O. P. (1976). "New and little known species of the family Dolichopodidae (Diptera) in the fauna of the USSR and adjacent territories". Nauchnye Doki Vyss Shkoly Biol Nauki. 1976 (8): 45–50. PMID 1026265.
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