Periscelididae

Periscelididae
Cyamops alessandrae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Section: Schizophora
Superfamily: Opomyzoidea
Family: Periscelididae
Subfamilies
  • Periscelidinae
  • Stenomicrinae

Periscelididae is a family of flies.

Description

Aulacigastrids are small black flies.The head is rounded. Postvertical bristles present and diverging. Ocellar bristles are present, there are two orbital bristles on each side of frons, the anterior orbital bristle directed forward and towards median line.There is one pair of frontal bristles, curving backward.Interfrontal bristles are absent. Vibrissae (a row of vibrissa-like bristles) are well developed.On the mesonotum there are two pairs of dorsoscentral bristles. The costa is continuous (not interrupted), the subcosta is incomplete. The posterior basal wing cell and discoidal wing cell are fused and the anal vein does not reach the margin of the wings. The wing is clear or with infuscated spots.Tibiae without dorsal preapical bristle. Genera include Cyamops ...

Species Lists

Phylogeny

  Opomyzoidea  

 Clusioinea (Clusiidae[1])

 Agromyzoinea (Odiniidae+Fergusoninidae+Agromyzidae)

 Opomyzoinea (Opomyzidae+Anthomyzidae)


  Asteioinea  

 Neurochaetidae+Aulacigastridae+Periscelididae

 Teratomyzidae

 Xenasteiidae

 Asteiidae








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Morphology of Diptera

References

  1. ↑ Nello schema di McAlpine, i Clusiidae sono in relazione con il genere Acartophthalmus, che secondo l'analisi cladistica di Buck (2006) va collocato nel clade dei Carnoidea. Vedi Acartophthalmidae.
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