Abstract
There is no catalog or identification keys for Brazilian genera and species of Acroceridae. This paper provides, for the first time, a key and diagnosis of the Brazilian genera of the Acroceridae, based on morphological characters and illustrated with photographs. The key and diagnoses are based on morphology rather than on color as has been used in previous studies. The key includes nine genera: Acrocera Meigen, Exetasis Walker, Lasia Wiedemann, Ocnaea Erichson, Ogcodes Latreille, Philopota Wiedemann, Pialea Erichson, Pterodontia Gray and Terphis Erichson.References
Bequaert, J. (1931) The genus Lasia (Diptera, Cyrtidae) in North America, with descriptions of two new species. American Museum Novitates, 455, 1–11.
Brunetti, E. (1926) New and little-known Cyrtidae (Diptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 18, 561–606.
Carrera, M. (1946) Duas novas espécies de Cyrtidae (Diptera) do Brasil. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 7, 79–86.
Cole, F.R. (1919) The dipterous family Cyrtidae in North America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 45, 1–79.
Erichson, W.F. (1840) Die Henopier, eine Familie aus der Ordnung der Dipteren. In: Entomographien, Untersuchungen in dem Gebiete der Entomologie, mit besonderer Benutzung der Konigl. Sammlung zu Berlin, vol. 1, Berlin, pp. 135–175.
Gil Collado, J. (1928) Cirtidos nuevos del Museo de Madrid. Eos, 4, 57–64.
Gray, G. R. (1832) Notices of new genera and species. In: Griffith, E. & Pidegon, E. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization by the Baron Cuvier. Vol. 15. The Class Insecta (Part II). London, Whittaker, Treacher & Co. 796 pp.
Latreille, P.A. (1797) Précis des caractères génériques des insectes, disposés dans un ordre naturel. Prévôt, Paris; Bordeaux, Brive. 201 pp.
McAlpine, J.F. (1981) Morphology and terminology – adults. In: McAlpine, J.F., Peterson, B.V., Shewell, G.E., Teskey, H.J., Vockeroth, J.R. & Wood, D.M. (Eds), Manual of Nearctic Diptera. Vol. 1. Agriculture Canada Research Branch, Monograph 27, Ottawa, pp. 9–63.
Meigen, J.W. (1803) Versuch einer neuen Gattungs-Eintheilung der europäischen zweiflügligen Insekten. Magazin für Insektenkunde, 2, 259–281.
Papavero, N. (1971) Essays on the history of Neotropical Dipterology, Vol. I. Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 216 pp.
Paramonov, S.J. (1957) Review of Australian Acroceridae. Australian Journal of Zoology, 5, 521–546.
Pujol-Luz, J.R.P. (2004) A associação de Philopota sp. Wiedemann (Diptera, Acroceridae) com flores do gervão-azul, Stachytarphetta cayanensis (Verbenaceae) na Ilha da Marambaia, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Entomologia y Vectores, 11, 681–687.
Sabrosky, C.W. (1944) A revision of the American Spider Parasites of the Genera Ogcodes and Acrocera (Diptera, Acroceridae). The American Midland Naturalist, 31, 385–413.
Schlinger, E.I. (1956) A revision of the Acrocerid flies of the genus Pialea Erichson with a discussion of their sexual dimorphism (Diptera). Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 16, 359–375.
Schlinger, E.I. (1960) A revision of the genus Ogcodes Latreille with particular reference to species of the Western Hemisphere. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 111, 227–336.
Schlinger, E.I. (1961) New species of Acrocera from Arizona and Ocnaea from California, with synonymical notes on the genus Ocnaea (Diptera: Acroceridae). Entomological News, 72: 7–12.
Schlinger (1968a) A revision of Arrynchus Philippi and a key to the genera of the Ocnaea branch of the Panopinae (Diptera). Revista Chilena de Entomologia, 6, 47-54.
Schlinger, E.I. (1968b) Africaterphis, a new genus for the African species of Terphis, and a redescription of the Brazilian genus Terphis Erichson (Diptera: Acroceridae). Annals of the Natal Museum, 20, 59–62.
Shlinger, E.I. (1972) A new Brazilian panopine species, Exetasis eickstedtae, reared from the Theraphosid spider, Lasiodora klugi (Koch), with a description of its immature larval stages (Diptera, Acroceridae). Papéis Avulsos Zoologia, 26, 73–82
Schlinger, E.I. (1981) Acroceridae. In: McAlpine, J.F., Peterson, B.V., Shewell, G.E., Teskey, H.J., Vockeroth, J.R. & Wood, D.M. (Eds), Manual of Nearctic Diptera. Vol. 1. Agriculture Canada Research Branch, Monograph 27, Ottawa, pp. 575–584.
Schlinger, E.I. (1987) The biology of Acroceridae (Diptera): true endoparasitoids of spiders. In: Nentwig, W. (Ed), Ecophysiology of Spiders. Springer-Verlang, Berlin, pp. 319–327.
Thompson (2006) The Diptera Site. Available from: http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/Diptera/ (12 nov. 2008).
Walker, F. (1852) Diptera. Part III. In: Saunders, W.W. (Ed), Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Sauders, pp. 157–252.
Wiedemann, C.R.W. (1824) Munus rectoris in Academia Christiana Albertina aditurus analecta entomologica ex Museo Regio Havniensi maxime congesta profert iconibusque illustrat. Kiliae [Kiel], 60 pp.
Wiedemann, C.R.W. (1830) Aussereuropäische zweiflügelige Insekten. Zweiter Theil. Schulz, Hamm, 684 pp.
Winterton, S.L., Wiegmann, B.M. & Schlinger, E.I. (2007) Phylogeny and Bayesian divergence time estimations of small-headed flies (Diptera: Acroceridae) using multiple molecular markers. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 43: 808-832.