Megalybus Philippi 1865
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Genus Megalybus Philippi, 1865: 641.
Type species: Megalybus pictus Philippi, 1865; by present designation.
= Megalybus Westwood, 1876: 511 (posterior homonym of Megalybus Philippi, 1865). Type species: Megalybus pictus Westwood, 1876 (= Megalybus pictus Philippi, 1865); by present designation.
Refs.: Schiner, 1868: 141 (syn. of Thyllis); Reed, 1888: 15 (cat., as Thyllis); Hunter, 1901: 151 (cat., as Thyllis); Kertész, 1909: 2 (cat. as Thyllis); Cole, 1918: 64 (wing, diff. Villalus), 1919: 4,5,7,8,9 (notes); Edwards, 1930: 188 (in key), 189–191; Stuardo, 1946: 101 (cat.); Winterton et al., 2007: 812 (list); Gillung & Winterton, 2011: 24 (in key); Schlinger et al., 2013: 62 (in key).
crassus Philippi, 1865: 642, pl. XXV fig. 19.
Syntypes: female, Valdivia (no type specimens deposited in MNNC). Dist.: Valparaíso (Petorca: fundo Talanquén; Quillota: Cuesta El Melón; Valparaíso: El Salto, Rodelillo); Metropolitana (Cordillera: El Canelo, El Manzano; Santiago: El Arrayán, Lo Aguirre); Biobío (Arauco: Parque Nacional Nahuelbuta sector Cabrerío; Ñuble: Las Trancas at Puente Torrealba, Piedras Comadres, Puente Marchant); La Araucanía (Cautín: cerro Ñielol); Los Ríos (Valdivia: San Juan, Santo Domingo); Los Lagos (Llanquihue: Casa Pangue, Ensenada, Puerto Varas).
Refs.: Reed, 1888: 289 (cat., as synonym of Thyllis philippii Schiner); Hunter, 1901: 151 (cat., as synonym of Thyllis philippii Schiner); Cole, 1919: 58, 60 (original description transcribed); Edwards, 1930: 190 (fig. 12), 192 (as valid species, male, female, redescription, synonymy); Ruiz & Stuardo, 1936: 318 (distr.); Stuardo, 1946: 101 (cat., synonymy).
= Megalybus gracilis Philippi, 1865: 643. Syntypes: female, Valdivia (no type specimens deposited in MNNC). Schiner, 1868: 144 (as Thyllis); Reed, 1888: 289 (as Thyllis); Kertész, 1909: 2 (as Thyllis); Hunter, 1901: 151 (cat.); Cole, 1919: 60 (transcription of original description); Edwards, 1930: 192 (as synonym of M. crassus). = Thyllis philippii Schiner, 1868: 144. Syntypes female, Valdivia (NMW?). Reed, 1888: 289 (cat.); Hunter, 1901: 151 (cat.); Kertész, 1909: 3 (as valid species of Thyllis); Edwards, 1930: 192 (as synonym of M. crassus).
= Megalybus gracilis Westwood, 1876: 512, pl. V fig. 5 (not Philippi, 1865). Syntypes: San Juan (UMO); Kertész, 1909: 2 (as synonym of M. gracilis Philippi); Edwards, 1930: 192 (as synonym of M. crassus).
obesus Philippi, 1865: 642 –643.
Holotype: female, Corral (no type specimen deposited in MNNC, presumably lost). Dist.: Coquimbo (Elqui: La Serena); Metropolitana (Chacabuco: Caleu; Cordillera: El Canelo, El Peñón, La Obra, Reserva Nacional Río Clarillo; Santiago: Lo Aguirre—on flowers of Trevoa trinervis Miers.); Biobío (Arauco: Parque Nacional Nahuelbuta; Ñuble: Las Trancas, Los Lleuques, Puente Marchant, San Fabián de Alico—on flowers of Castanea sativ a); Los Ríos (Valdivia: Corral, San Juan); Los Lagos (Llanquihue: Casa Pangue—on flowers of Chrysantemun leucanthenum and various shrubs, Ensenada—on flowers of Berberis; Osorno: Antillanca). Argentina: Neuquén (Lago Queñi, Paso Puyehue (actually Paso Cardenal Samoré)), on flowers of Lathyrus multiceps Clos).
Refs.: Reed, 1888: 289 (cat., as Thyllis); Kertész, 1909: 3 (as Thyllis); Hunter, 1901: 151 (cat.); Cole, 1919: 60 (original description transcribed); Edwards, 1930: 1 91–192 (as Megalybus, male, female, redescription, synonymy); Stuardo, 1946: 101 (cat., synonymy); Stuardo, 1980: 97 (collect data); Devoto, 2006: 40, 69, 96 (collect data).
= Megalybus tristis Philippi, 1865: 643 –644. Syntypes: male, San Juan (no type specimens deposited in MNNC). Reed, 1888: 289 (cat., as Thyllis); Hunter, 1901: 151 (cat.); Cole, 1919: 60 –61 (original description transcribed); Edwards, 1930: 191 (as synonym of M. obesus).
= Megalybus tristis Westwood, 1876: 512 (not Philippi, 1865). Syntypes: male, San Juan (UMO); Kertész, 1909: 3 (as valid species of Thyllis); Edwards, 1930: 191 (as synonym of M. obesus).
pictus Philippi, 1865: 642.
Syntypes: Santiago, female (no type specimens deposited in MNNC). Dist.: Valparaíso (Marga Marga: Marga Marga, Parque Nacional La Campana sector Granizo; Petorca: Putaendo; Valparaíso: El Salto, San Gerónimo); Metropolitana (Chacabuco: Caleu; Cordillera: El Canelo—on flowers of Oxalis sp., El Manzano, La Obra—on Haplopappus sp., Quebrada El Purgatorio; Maipo: Rangue; Santiago: cerro La Provincia, cerro Manquehue—on flowers of Stachys albicaulis Lindl., cerro San Cristóbal, Lo Aguirre—on flowers of Trevoa trinervis Miers. and Podanthus mitiqui Lindl., Peñalolén, Santiago; Talagante: Talagante—on flowers of Azara dentata Ruiz et Pavon); O’Higgins (Colchagua: Chomedahue); Maule (Talca: Cumpeo); Biobío (Concepción: Concepción; Ñuble: Puente Marchant, Termas de Chillán); Los Ríos (Valdivia: San Juan); Los Lagos (Llanquihue: Casa Pangue, Puerto Varas; Chiloé: Castro). Argentina: Neuquén (Confluencia Traful, Lago Queñi, Lago Tromen, Paso Puyehue (actually Paso Cardenal Samoré), Villa Traful. on flowers of Budleja globosa Hope, Embothrium coccineum J. R. Forst. & G. Forst., Senecio zosterifolius Hook. et Arn.). Biology: reared from Amaurobiidae (Schlinger, 1987).
Refs.: Reed, 1888: 289 (cat., as Thyllis); Hunter, 1901: 151 (cat.); Kertész, 1909: 3 (as Thyllis); Cole, 1919: 58 (original description transcribed); Edwards, 1930: 193 (as Megalybus, synonymy, female variability); Stuardo, 1946: 101–102 (cat., synonymy); Stuardo, 1980: 97 (collect data); Devoto, 2006: 69, 96 (collect data).
= Megalybus subcylindricus Philippi, 1865: 644. Holotype: male, Valdivia, San Juan (no type specimen deposited in MNNC). Reed, 1888: 289 (cat., as Thyllis); Kertész, 1909: 3 (as valid species of Thyllis); Hunter, 1901: 151 (cat.); Cole, 1919: 61 (original description transcribed); Edwards, 1930: 193 (as synonym of M. pictus).
= Megalybus pictu s Westwood, 1876: 511, pl. V fig. 4 (not Philippi, 1865). Syntypes: female, Chile (UMO). Kertész, 1909: 3 (as synonym of M. pictus Philippi).
= Megalybus subcylindricus Westwood, 1876: 512 –513 (not Philippi, 1865). Syntypes: Valdivia (UMO); Edwards, 1930: 193 (as synonym of M. pictus).
= Megalybus gracilis Cole, 1919: 59 (fig. 1), 61–62 (misidentification, not Philippi, 1865; not Westwood, 1876); Edwards, 1930: 193 (as synonym of M. pictus).
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- Acroceridae
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- Megalybus Philippi, 1865 sec. González, Elgueta & Ramirez, 2018
References
- Philippi, R. A. (1865) Aufzahlung der chilenischen Dipteren. Verhandlungen der k. - k. Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 15, 595 - 782, pls. xxiii-xxix.
- Westwood, J. O. (1876) Notae Dipterologicae. N ° 3. - Descriptions of new genera and species of the family Acroceridae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 3, 507 - 518, pls. 5 - 6.
- Schiner, R. J. (1868) Acroceridae. In: Reise der osterreichischen Fregatte Novara u a m die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Zweiter Band. 1. Abtheilung B. Karl Gerold's Sohn, Wien, pp. 140 - 145
- Reed, E. C. (1888) Catalogo de los insectos dipteros de Chile. Anales de la Universidad de Chile, 73, 271 - 316.
- Hunter, W. D. (1901) Catalogue of the Diptera of South America. Part II, Homodactyla and Mydiadae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 27, 121 - 155.
- Kertesz, C. (1909) Catalogus dipterorum Hucusque Descriptorum. Vol. IV. Lipsiae, Budapestini, 348 pp.
- Cole, F. R. (1918) A new genus of Cyrtidae from South America (Dipt.). Entomological News, 29, 61 - 64.
- Edwards, F. W. (1930). Bombyliidae, Nemestrinidae and Cyrtidae. Diptera of Patagonia and South Chile, Part V (Fascicle 2), 162 - 197.
- Stuardo, C. (1946) Catalogo de los dipteros de Chile. Ministerio de Agricultura, Impresiones Universitaria, Santiago, 250 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. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2006.08.015
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- Cole, F. R. (1919) The Cyrtid genera Thyllis and Megalybus. The Canadian Entomologist, 51 (1), 54 - 62. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / Ent 5154 - 3
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- Stuardo, C. (1980) Notas biologicas sobre Acroceridae de Chile (Diptera). Revista Chilena de Entomologia, 10, 97.
- Devoto, M. (2006) Interacciones planta - polinizador a lo largo de un gradiente ambiental: una aproximacion en escala de comunidad. Tesis de Magister, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Area Recursos Naturales, Escuela para Graduados Alberto Soriano, Facultad de Agronomia, Buenos Aires, 116 pp.
- Schlinger, E. I. (1987) The biology of Acroceridae (Diptera): True endoparasitoids of spiders. In: Nentwig, W. (Ed.), Ecophysiology of Spiders. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 319 - 327. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 642 - 71552 - 5 _ 24