Lonchoptera

Lonchoptera
Lonchoptera lutea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Lonchopteridae
Genus: Lonchoptera
Meigen, 1803
Type species
Lonchoptera lutea
Panzer, 1809
Synonyms
  • Dipsa Fallén, 1810
  • Lonchopteryx Stephens, 1829 (unjustified emendation)
  • Musidora Meigen, 1800 (suppressed)
  • Spilolonchoptera? Yang, 1998
  • Homolonchoptera? Yang, 1998

Lonchoptera is a genus of spear-winged flies (Lonchopteridae). Their common name refers to their subacute (pointed) wings, which have a distinct and sexually dimorphic venation.

Description

Species in Lonchoptera are tiny to small, at 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in), slender, and yellow to brownish-black bristly.

The larvae are dorsally flattened, with two pairs of head bristles, and feed on rotting vegetable matter, including in one case brussels sprouts.

This genus can be distinguished from other spear-winged flies by several traits:

Species

Species include:

The entomologist Andrew E. Whittington in 2024 suggested that the genera Homolonchoptera and Spilolonchoptera are junior synonyms of Lonchoptera giving the genus additional eight species , being the following:

References

  1. ↑ Meigen, J. W. (1803). "Versuch einer neuen Gattungs-Eintheilung der europäischen zweiflügligen Insekten". Magazin für Insektenkunde. 2: 259–281.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Smith, K.G.V. (1969). "Lonchopteridae". Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects (Print). 10 (2ai). London: Royal Entomological Society of London: 9.
  3. ↑ Airy-Shaw, H.K. (1969). "Unusual habitat for Lonchoptera (Dipt., Lonchopteridae) larvae?". Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (Print). Vol. 105. p. 26.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Dong, Qibiao; Pang, Baoping; Yang, Ding (2008). "Lonchopteridae (Diptera) from Guangxi, Southwest China" (PDF Adobe Achrobat). Zootaxa. 1806: 59–65. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1806.1.4. Retrieved 17 September 2009.
  5. ↑ Adams, C.F. (1905). "Diptera Africana". Kansas University Science Bulletin (Print). 3 (6). Kansas University: 149–159?. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.8100.
  6. 1 2 3 Stuckenberg, B. R. (1963). "The genus Lonchoptera Meigen in Southern Africa". Journal of the Entomological Society of South Africa (Print). 26: 129–143.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Andersson, H. (1971). "Eight new species of Lonchoptera from Burma (Dipt., Lonchopteridae)". Entomologisk Tidskrift. 92 (3–4): 213–231.
  8. ↑ Joseph, A.N.T.; Parui, P. (1976). "A New Species of Lonchoptera Meigen (Diptera: Lonchopteridae) from India". Oriental Insects (Print). 10 (2). Calcutta: Zoological Survey of India: 291–293. doi:10.1080/00305316.1976.10434910.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Andersson, H. (1991). Soós, Á.; Papp, L. (eds.). Lonchopteridae in Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Vol. 7. Budapest, Hungary: Hungarian Natural History Museum. pp. 139–142.
  10. ↑ Smith, K.G.V. (1974). "A striking new species of Lonchoptera (Diptera, Lonchopteridae) from Mount Kinabalu, Borneo". Journal of Natural History (Print). 8 (2): 235–237. Bibcode:1974JNatH...8..235S. doi:10.1080/00222937400770211.
  11. ↑ Collin, J. E. (1938). "The British species of Lonchoptera (Diptera)". Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (Print). Vol. 74. pp. 60–65.
  12. ↑ Whittington, A. E.; Beuk, P. L. T. (2022). "A description of a new species of Western Palaearctic Lonchoptera Meigen (Diptera, Lonchopteridae) from Georgia". ZooNova (Print). Vol. 20. pp. 1–18.
  13. 1 2 Whittington, A. E. (1991). Two new Afrotropical species of Lonchoptera Meigen (Diptera: Lonchopteridae) (Print). Vol. 32. Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. pp. 205–214.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  14. ↑ Zwick, P. (2004). "Lonchoptera vaillanti sp. nov., a new fly from Switzerland (Diptera: Lonchopteridae)". Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Gessellschaft. 77: 133–136.
  15. ↑ The status of genera in the Lonchopteridae (Diptera), and new records of Lonchoptera from Taiwan Andrew E. Whittington. Zoonova, 38. 2024: