Anepsiomyia is a genus of
flies in the family
Dolichopodidae.[7] It contains only one extant species from
Europe, Anepsiomyia flaviventris, as well as two fossil species from the
Eocene of
Russia and
Belarus. The systematic position of the genus is currently uncertain: it has been variously placed in subfamilies such as
Sympycninae and
Peloropeodinae.[8][9]
Taxonomic history
The species Anepsiomyia flaviventris was first described as Porphyrops flaviventris by
Johann Wilhelm Meigen in 1824. In 1857,
Hermann Loew classified the species as its own genus, Anepsius, which he considered to be most closely related to the genus Sympycnus;[6] the name Anepsius is derived from the
Ancient Greek word ἀνεψιός (anepsiós, 'cousin'), referring to this close relationship.[10] Later,
Mario Bezzi found this name to be preoccupied by the
darkling beetle genus Anepsius (LeConte, 1851), so he renamed Loew's genus to Anepsiomyia in 1902.[2]
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abYang, D.; Zhu, Y.; Wang, M.; Zhang, L. (2006). World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera). Beijing: China Agricultural University Press. pp. 1–704.
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^Bernasconi, M. V.; Pollet, M.; Ward, P. I. (2007). "Molecular systematics of Dolichopodidae (Diptera) inferred from COI and 12S rDNA gene sequences based on European exemplars". Invertebrate Systematics. 21: 453–470.
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^Germann, C.; Pollet, M.; Wimmer, C.; Bernasconi, M.V. (2011). "Molecular data sheds light on the classification of long-legged flies (Diptera : Dolichopodidae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 25 (4): 303–321.
doi:
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^Bei-Bienko, G.Y. & Steyskal, G.C. (1988) Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR, Volume V: Diptera and Siphonaptera, Parts I, II. Amerind Publishing Co., New Delhi.
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^Pollet, M.; Andrade, R.; Gonçalves, A.; Andrade, P.; Jacinto, V.; Almeida, J.; De Braekeleer, A.; Van Calster, H.; Brosens, D. (2019). "Dipterological surveys in Portugal unveil 200 species of long-legged flies, with over 170 new to the country (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". Zootaxa. 4649 (1): zootaxa.4649.1.1.
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PMID31716932.