Parahercostomus | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Dolichopodidae |
Subfamily: | Dolichopodinae |
Genus: |
Parahercostomus Yang, Saigusa & Masunaga, 2001 [1] |
Type species | |
Hercostomus (Hercostomus) zhongdianus Yang, 1998
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Parahercostomus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It includes four species known only from China. [3] Members of the genus are metallic green in color and large in size, with a body length of 4.5–5.3 mm and a wing length of 5.2–7.0 mm. The generic name is a combination of the prefix para- (from the Ancient Greek παρά, pará, meaning "near" or "beside") with the generic name Hercostomus. [1] According to Brooks (2005)'s phylogenetic analysis of the subfamily Dolichopodinae, Parahercostomus appears to be closely related to Grichanov (1999)'s Afrotropical species group 1 in the genus Hercostomus, which was later transferred to the genus Afrohercostomus. [4]