Scellus

Scellus
Scellus notatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Hydrophorinae
Tribe: Hydrophorini
Genus: Scellus
Loew, 1857
Type species
Hydrophorus spinimanus

Scellus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is distributed in the Palearctic and Nearctic.

Males of the genus have a pair of flag-like appendages, known as "signa" (singular "signum"), that emanate laterally from between the 4th and 5th abdominal segments. These appendages are connected together by a band under the sternites, forming a U-shaped structure called the "cingulum". It has been suggested by researchers that these appendages are used for visual signalling or pheromone dispersal during courtship. The genus Hydatostega also has a cingulum, but much reduced, suggesting that Scellus and Hydatostega are closely related.

Species

References

  1. ↑ Loew, Hermann (1857). "Neue Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Dipteren. Fünfter Beitrag". Programm der Königlichen Realschule zu Meseritz: 1–56.
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  10. 1 2 Van Duzee, M. C. "Scellus virago Aldrich (a two-winged fly) and two forms closely related to it". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 4th series. 14 (10): 175–183. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
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  15. 1 2 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.
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