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Issue: Vol. 4093 No. 2: 22 Mar. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-03-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4093.2.7
Page range: 261–274
Abstract views: 61
PDF downloaded: 41

Review of the little-known western Nearctic fly genus Philetus Melander (Diptera: Empididae), with a discussion of its phylogenetic assignment

Invertebrate Biodiversity, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, K.W. Neatby Bldg., C.E.F., 960 Carling Ave., Ottawa, ON, KIA OC6, CANADA.
Invertebrate Biodiversity, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, K.W. Neatby Bldg., C.E.F., 960 Carling Ave., Ottawa, ON, KIA OC6, CANADA.
Canadian National Collection of Insects & Canadian Food Inspection Agency, OPL-Entomology, K.W. Neatby Bldg., C.E.F., 960 Carling Ave., Ottawa, ON, KIA OC6, CANADA.
Diptera Empididae Philetus Hesperempis dance flies systematics western North America male terminalia phylogeny DNA barcodes

Abstract

The western North American empidid genus Philetus Melander is reviewed, including redescription of the two included species, P. memorandus Melander and P. schizophorus Melander. A lectotype is designated for P. schizophorus. The        distributions of both species are mapped and the male terminalia are illustrated. The female of P. schizophorus is discovered for the first time through comparison of COI mitochondrial DNA barcode sequences. The phylogenetic assignment of  Philetus within the Empididae is discussed based on a reinterpretation of male terminalia homologies.

 

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