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Litoleptis Chillcott, 1963: 1186
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Genus Litoleptis Chillcott, 1963: 1186.
Type species: Litoleptis alaskensis Chillcott, 1963, by orig. des.
Refs.: Hennig, 1976: 14 (com.); James & Turner, 1981: 483 (com.), 484 (com. key); Nagatomi, 1982b: 141–142 (dist.); Nagatomi & Soroida, 1985: 281 (com.); Nagatomi et al., 1991: 597, 598 (phyl.); Grimaldi & Cumming, 1999: 16 (com.); Stuckenberg, 2001: 19 (com., as Spaniidae); Zloty et al., 2005: 259 (com.); Arillo et al. 2009: 33 (des., as Spaniidae); Kerr, 2009: 486 (com.); Kerr, 2010: 68 (key, as Rhagionidae), 90 (diag.); Klassa & Santos, 2015: 523 (list); Imada & Kato, 2016a: 43 (diag.), 45 (new species); Imada & Kato, 2016b: 7 (biol., des. larvae); Grimaldi, 2018: 2 (com.), 4 (des.), 11–16 (phyl.).
chilensis Hennig, 1972: 6–9.
Holotype: male, Chile, Batuco Cerro (SMNS). Dist.: Región Metropolitana, Santiago Province (Batuco).
Refs.: Stuckenberg, 2001: 19 (com.); Kerr, 2010: 124 (list); Grimaldi, 2018: 2, 12–15 (com.)
Notes
Published as part of Elgueta, Mario & Santos, Charles Morphy D., 2020, A catalog of Rhagionidae (Diptera: Brachycera) from Chile, pp. 237-248 in Zootaxa 4728 (2) on page 243, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4728.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/3621163
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- SMNS
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- Chillcott, 1963:
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- Animalia
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- Arthropoda
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- Diptera
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- Rhagionidae
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- Litoleptis
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- genus
- Type status
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- Litoleptis Chillcott, 1186 sec. Elgueta & Santos, 2020
References
- Chillcott, J. G. (1963) A new genus of Rhagionidae (Diptera) with notes and descriptions of Bolbomyia Loew. Canadian Entomologist, 95, 1185 - 1190. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / Ent 951185 - 11
- Hennig, W. (1976) Das hypopygium von Lonchoptera lutea Panzer und die phylogenetischen Vermandtschaftsbeziehungen der Cyclorrphapha. Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde, 283, 1 - 63.
- James, M. T. & Turner, W. J. (1981) Rhagionidae. 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. Research Branch Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, pp. 483 - 488.
- Nagatomi, A. (1982 b) Geographical distribution of the lower Brachycera (Diptera). Pacific Insects, 24 (2), 139 - 150.
- Nagatomi, A. & Soroida, K. (1985) The structure of the mouthparts of the orthorrhaphous Brachycera (Diptera) with special reference to blood-sucking. Beitrage zur Entomologie, 35, 263 - 368.
- Nagatomi, A., Saigusa, T., Nagatomi, H. & Lyneborg, L. (1991) The systematic position of the Apsilocephalidae, Rhagionempididae, Protempididae, Hilarimorphidae, Vermilionidae, and some genera of Bombyliidae (Insecta, Diptera). Zoological Science, 8, 593 - 607.
- Grimaldi, D. A. & Cumming, J. M. (1999) Brachyceran Diptera in Cretaceous ambers and Mesozoic diversification of the Eremoneura. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 239, 1 - 124.
- Stuckenberg, B. R. (2001) Pruning the tree: a critical review of classifications of the Homeodactyla (Diptera, Brachycera), with new perspectives and an alternative classification. Studia Dipterologica, 8, 3 - 41.
- Zloty, J., Sinclair, B. J. & Pritchard, G. (2005) Discovered in our backyard: a new genus and species of a new family from the Rocky Mountains of North America (Diptera, Tabanomorpha). Systematic Entomology, 30, 248 - 266. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 3113.2005.00270. x
- Arillo, A., Penalver, E. & Garcia-Gimeno, V. (2009) First fossil Litoleptis (Diptera: Spaniidae) from the Lower Cretaceous amber of San Just (Teruel Province, Spain). Zootaxa, 2026 (1), 33 - 39. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2026.1.3
- Kerr, P. H. (2009) 32 Rhagionidae (Snipe flies). In: Brown, B. V., Borkent, A., Cumming, J. M., Wood, D. M., Woodley, N. E. & Zumbado, M. A. (Eds.), Manual of Central American Diptera. Vol. 1. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, pp. 485 - 489.
- Kerr, P. H. (2010) Phylogeny and classification of Rhagionidae, with implications for Tabanomorpha (Diptera: Brachycera). Zootaxa, 2592 (1), 1 - 133. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2592.1.1
- Klassa, B. & Santos, C. M. D. (2015) Areas of endemism in the Neotropical region based on the geographical distribution of Tabanomorpha (Diptera: Brachycera). Zootaxa, 4058 (4), 519 - 534. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4058.4.4
- Imada, Y. & Kato, M. (2016 a) Bryophyte-feeding of Litoleptis (Diptera: Rhagionidae) with descriptions of new species from Japan. Zootaxa, 4097 (1), 41 - 58. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4097.1.2
- Imada, Y. & Kato, M. (2016 b) Bryophyte-feeders in a basal Brachyceran lineage (Diptera: Rhagionidae: Spaniinae): adult oviposition behavior and changes in the larval mouthpart morphology accompanied with the diet shifts. PLoS One, 11 (11), e 0165808. https: // doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0165808
- Grimaldi, D. A. (2018) First Tropical American species of the " Relict " genus Litoleptis, and relationships in Spaniinae (Diptera: Rhagionidae). American Museum Novitates, 3909, 1 - 18. https: // doi. org / 10.1206 / 3909.1
- Hennig, W. (1972) Eine neue Art der Rhagionidengattung Litoleptis aus Chile, mit Bemerkungen uber Fuhlerbildung und Verwandtschaftsbexiebungen einiger Brachycerenfamilien (Diptera: Brachycera). Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde, 174, 1 - 51.