Aulacigastridae

Stenomicra sp., photographed by S. E. Thorpe.

Belongs within: Schizophora.

The Aulacigastridae are a group of small flies that may be attracted to freshly cut vegetation and sap fluxes. Membership of the group has been debated between authors with the Stenomicrinae alternatively being classified within the Periscelididae (Mathis & Rung 2010). Stenomicrinae have an arista with long pectinate rays whereas Aulacigaster have only short hairs on the arista (Teskey 1987).

<==Aulacigastridae RM10
    |  i. s.: Schizochroa T87
    |         Xenanthomyza larssoni T87
    |--Curiosimusca Rung et al. 2005 RM10
    |--Echidnocephalodes RM10
    |--Aulacigaster RM10
    |    |--A. electra [=Protoaulacigaster electra] RM10
    |    |--A. leucopeza T87
    |    |--A. melanoleuca RM10
    |    |--A. minuta RM10
    |    `--A. neoleucopeza WT11
    `--Stenomicrinae [Stenomicridae] MR10
         |--Planinasus electrus Grimaldi & Mathis 1993 MR10
         |--Cyamops WT11
         |    |  i. s.: C. nebulosus T87
         |    |--C. americus Baptista & Mathis 1994 BM96
         |    |--C. fasciatus BM96
         |    `--+--C. neotropicus BM96
         |       `--C. sabroskyi Baptista & Mathis 1996 BM96
         `--Stenomicra RM10
              |--S. anacrostichalis MR10
              |--S. angustata T87
              |--S. fascipennis O98
              |--S. orientalis MR10
              `--S. sabroskyi MR10

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[BM96] Baptista, A. R. P., & W. N. Mathis. 1996. A new species of Cyamops Melander (Diptera: Periscelididae) from Brazil, with distributional notes on another species. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 98 (2): 245–248.

[MR10] Mathis, W. N., & A. Rung. 2010. Periscelididae (periscelid flies). In: Brown, B. V., A. Borkent, J. M. Cumming, D. M. Wood, N. E. Woodley & M. A. Zumbado (eds) Manual of Central American Diptera vol. 2 pp. 1087–1092. NRC Research Press: Ottawa.

[O98] Oosterbroek, P. 1998. The Families of Diptera of the Malay Archipelago. Brill: Leiden.

[RM10] Rung, A., & W. N. Mathis. 2010. Aulacigastridae (aulacigastrid flies). In: Brown, B. V., A. Borkent, J. M. Cumming, D. M. Wood, N. E. Woodley & M. A. Zumbado (eds) Manual of Central American Diptera vol. 2 pp. 1083–1085. NRC Research Press: Ottawa.

[T87] Teskey, H. J. 1987. Aulacigastridae. In: McAlpine, J. F. (ed.) Manual of Nearctic Diptera vol. 2 pp. 891–894. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada.

[WT11] Wiegmann, B. M., M. D. Trautwein, I. S. Winkler, N. B. Barr, J.-W. Kim, C. Lambkin, M. A. Bertone, B. K. Cassel, K. M. Bayless, A. M. Heimberg, B. M. Wheeler, K. J. Peterson, T. Pape, B. J. Sinclair, J. H. Skevington, V. Blagoderov, J. Caravas, S. N. Kutty, U. Schmidt-Ott, G. E. Kampmeier, F. C. Thompson, D. A. Grimaldi, A. T. Beckenbach, G. W. Courtney, M. Friedrich, R. Meier & D. K. Yeates. 2011. Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 108 (14): 5690–5695.

Last updated: 30 June 2021.