Tetrachaetus

Tetrachaetus
Tetrachaetus bipunctatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Sympycninae
Genus: Tetrachaetus
Bickel & Dyte, 1989
Species:
T. bipunctatus
Binomial name
Tetrachaetus bipunctatus
Parent, 1933
Synonyms
Genus
  • Tetrachaetus Parent, 1933
    (unavailable)
Species
  • Tetrachaetus simplex Parent, 1933

Tetrachaetus is a monospecific genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, found in New Zealand, containing only the species Tetrachaetus bipunctatus. The genus was originally named by Octave Parent in 1933 and originally included two species. However, as the genus was not designated a type species, this name was unavailable until 1989, when Daniel J. Bickel and C. E. Dyte designated Tetrachaetus bipunctatus as the type species.

The two species that were part of this genus, T. bipunctus and T. simplex, were found to be conspecific and were synonymised under Tetrachaetus bipunctatus Parent (1933) in 2025.

References

  1. 1 2 Bickel, D. J.; Dyte, C. E. (1989). "Family Dolichopodidae" (PDF). Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions: 393–418. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 Parent, O. (1933). "Étude monographique sur les Diptères Dolichopodides de Nouvelle Zélande". Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles. Série B. Sciences Physiques et Naturelles. 53: 325–441.
  3. ↑ Kerr, D. Steven; Gillum, Joanne E.; Fleury, Kane (25 Dec 2025). "The New Zealand genus Tetrachaetus (Diptera: Dolichopodidae): synonymisation of Tetrachaetus bipunctatus and T. simplex". New Zealand Entomologist. 49 (1): 40–49. doi:10.1080/00779962.2025.2597528.