Falbouria

Falbouria is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, endemic to the Azores.[3] It contains only one species, Falbouria acorensis. It was originally named Balfouria by Octave Parent in 1933; it was renamed to Falbouria by C. E. Dyte in 1980 after the name Balfouria was found to be preoccupied by the snail genus Balfouria (Crosse, 1884).[1]

Falbouria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Diaphorinae
Tribe: Diaphorini
Genus: Falbouria
Dyte, 1980[1]
Species:
F. acorensis
Binomial name
Falbouria acorensis
(Parent, 1933)[2]
Synonyms
Genus
  • Balfouria Parent, 1933
    (nec Crosse, 1884)
Species
  • Balfouria acorensis Parent, 1933

Systematic position

The genus Falbouria was placed in the tribe Argyrini by Maslova and Negrobov (1996). Later, on re-describing the type species of the genus, Capellari and Amorim (2012) found the genus shares some features with Achradocera, Chrysotus, and Lyroneurus, so they place it in Diaphorini instead. Falbouria is placed close to Chrysotus by these authors, but is kept as a separate genus rather than becoming a synonym of Chrysotus (which is itself paraphyletic).[4]

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References
  1. Dyte, C. E. (1980). "Some replacement names in the Dolichopodidae (Diptera)". Ent. Scand. 11 (2): 223–224. doi:10.1163/187631280X00545.
  2. Parent, O. (1933). "Quelques especes nouvelles de Dipteres Dolichopodides de la region palearctique". Annales de la Societe Scientifique de Bruxelles. 53: 74–78.
  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. Capellari, R.S.; Amorim, D.S. (2012). "Systematic position of the monotypic Azorean genus Falbouria Dyte with notes on the definition of Chrysotus Meigen (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". Zootaxa. 3489: 81–88. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3489.1.5.
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