Acropsilus

Acropsilus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.[6] It is unplaced in the family,[7] having been placed variously in subfamilies such as Sympycninae or Peloropeodinae. It is superficially similar to the Medeterinae.[8]

Acropsilus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Dolichopodidae
Subfamily:	incertae sedis
Genus:	Acropsilus Mik, 1878[1]
Type species
Chrysotus niger Loew, 1869[2]
Synonyms[3]
Campsicnemoides Curran, 1927[4] Nobilusa Wei, 2006[5]

Species

The genus contains 30 species:[8][9][10]

• Acropsilus albitibia Bickel, 1998
• Acropsilus boharti Bickel, 1998
• Acropsilus brevitalus (Parent, 1937)[11][9]
• Acropsilus colmani Bickel, 1998
• Acropsilus eburneensis Couturier, 1978[12]
• Acropsilus errabundus Lamb, 1922[13]
• Acropsilus guangdongensis Wang, Yang & Grootaert, 2007
• Acropsilus guangxiensis Wang, Yang & Grootaert, 2007
• Acropsilus igori Negrobov, 1984[14]
• Acropsilus jinxiuensis Wang, Yang & Grootaert, 2007
• Acropsilus kuranda Bickel, 1998
• Acropsilus luoxiangensis Wang, Yang & Grootaert, 2007
• Acropsilus malaita Bickel, 1998
• Acropsilus maprik Bickel, 1998
• Acropsilus minutulus (Vanschuytbroeck, 1951)
• Acropsilus minutus Hollis, 1964
• Acropsilus niger (Loew, 1869)[2]
• Acropsilus nigricornis Bickel, 1998
• Acropsilus olegi Grichanov, 1998[9]
• Acropsilus opipara (Wei, 2006)[5]
• Acropsilus perminutus (Parent, 1937)[11][9]
• Acropsilus protractus Robinson, 1963
• Acropsilus putosa Bickel, 1998
• Acropsilus stekolnikovi Grichanov, 1998[9]
• Acropsilus toma Bickel, 1998
• Acropsilus udot Bickel, 1998
• Acropsilus vorax (Curran, 1927)[3][4]
• Acropsilus yunnanensis Wang, Yang & Grootaert, 2007
• Acropsilus zengchenensis Wang, Yang & Grootaert, 2007
• Acropsilus zhuae Wang, Yang & Grootaert, 2007

References

1. Mik, Josef (1878). "Dipterologische Untersuchungen". Jahresber. K. K. Akad. Gymnasium: 1–24, 1 pl.
2. Loew, Hermann (1869). Beschreibung europäischer Dipteren. Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insecten, von Johann Wilhelm Meigen. Achter Theil oder zweiter Supplementband. Vol. 1. Halle: H. W. Schmidt. pp. xvi + 310 + [2] pp.
3. Grichanov, Igor Ya.; Mostovski, Mike B. (2009). "Long-legged flies (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) in the collection of the Natal Museum: A review of C.H. Curran's types, new synonyms, and new combinations". Zootaxa. 2194: 37–53. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2194.1.3.
4. Curran, Charles Howard (1927). "Records and descriptions of South African Diptera with notes on two Wiedemann types". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 12: 181–185.
5. Zizhong, Li; Daochao, Jin (2006). Insects from Fanjingshan Landscape (in Chinese). Guiyang: Guizhou Science and Technology Publishing House. p. 481.
6. 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.
7. Ulrich, J. (1980). "Zur systematischen Gliederung der Dolichopodiden (Diptera)". Bonner zoologische Beiträge. 31 (3–4): 385–402.
8. Bickel, D. J. (1998). "Australian, Melanesian and Micronesian Acropsilus Mik (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 141 (1): 1–17. doi:10.1163/22119434-99900001.
9. Grichanov, I. Ya. (1998). "Afrotropical species of the genus Acropsilus Mik (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". An International Journal of Dipterological Research. 9 (3): 183–190.
10. Wang, Mengqing; Yang, Ding; Grootaert, Patrick (2007). "Revision of the species of Acropsilus Mik (Diptera, Dolichopodidae) from China". Biologia. 62 (1): 88–94. doi:10.2478/s11756-007-0015-6.
11. Parent, O. (1937). "Diptères Dolichopodides nouveaux du Congo belge et du Maroc". Bulletin du Musee d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique. 13 (18): 1–19.
12. Couturier, Guy (1977). "Les Diptères Doiichepodidae de Côte d'Ivoire : Description de trois nouvelles espèce" (PDF). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France. 82 (9–11): 220–224. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
13. Lamb, C.G (1922). "The Percy Sladen Trust expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under leadership of Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner M.A. Vol.VII. No.VIII-Diptera: Asilidae, Scenopinidae, Dolichopodidae, Pipunculidae, Syrphidae". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology. 2. 18: 361–416.
14. Negrobov, O. V. (1984). "The genera of the family Dolichopodidae (diptera) new for the fauna of Palaearctic and USSR". Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. 63 (7): 1111–1115.