Belongs within: Ephydroidea.
The Ephydrinae are a group of shore flies with lateroclinate fronto-orbital setae, and a large, cavernous subcranial cavity (Mathis 2010).
Characters (from Mathis 2010): Fronto-orbital setae lateroclinate, usually conspicuous; median facial area and lower facial margin setose, the latter often with long setae (if not, costa short, extended to R4+5); insertions of facial series of setae convergent above; subcranial cavity large and cavernous.
<==Ephydrinae M10
| i. s.: Setacera pacifica WMV87
| Coenia palustris WMV87, WT11
| Paracoenia WMV87
| |--P. (Paracoenia) bisetosa WMV87
| `--P. (Thiomyia) quatei WMV87
| Calocoenia platypelta WMV87
| Philotelma alaskense WMV87
|--Parydra [Parydrini] M10
| |--P. (Parydra) aquila WMV87
| |--P. fossarum M10
| |--P. nigripes M10
| `--P. (Chaetoapnaea) parasocia WMV87
|--Scatellini M10
| |--Scatophila cribrata M10
| |--Limnellia huachuca M10
| |--Haloscatella muria [=Lamproscatella muria] M10
| |--Neoscatella vittithorax WMV87, M83
| `--Scatella M10
| |--S. marinensis M10
| |--S. stagnalis P09
| `--S. triseta WMV87
|--Dagini M10
| |--Dagus rostratus M10
| |--Physemops nemorosus M10
| |--Brachydeutera M10
| | |--B. argentata M10
| | |--B. longipes M10
| | `--B. neotropica M10
| `--Diedrops M10
| |--D. hitchcocki M10
| |--D. roldanorum M10
| `--D. steineri M10
`--Ephydrini M10
|--Dimecoenia spinosa M10
|--Cirrula M10
| |--C. austrina M10
| `--C. gigantea WMV87
`--Ephydra M10
| i. s.: E. buresi WMV87
| E. gracilis M10
| E. mexicana M10
| E. millibrae M10
| E. packardi M10
|--E. (Ephydra) M10
| |--E. (E.) riparia M10
| `--E. (E.) subopaca WMV87
|--E. (Halephydra) cinerea WMV87
`--E. (Hydropyrus) hians M10
*Type species of generic name indicated
REFERENCES
[M83] Martin, N. A. 1983. Miscellaneous observations on a pasture fauna: an annotated species list. DSIR Entomology Division Report 3: 1–98.
[M10] Mathis, W. N. 2010. Ephydridae (shore 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. 1211–1233. NRC Research Press: Ottawa.
[P09] Pape, T. 2009. Economic importance of Diptera. 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. 1 pp. 65–77. NRC Research Press: Ottawa.
[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.
[WMV87] Wirth, W. W., W. N. Mathis & J. R. Vockeroth. 1987. Ephydridae. In: McAlpine, J. F. (ed.) Manual of Nearctic Diptera vol. 2 pp. 1027–1047. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada.
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