Tetanocerini

Tetanocera ferruginea, copyright Aleksandrs Balodis.

Belongs within: Sciomyzidae.

The Tetanocerini are a group of snail-killing flies whose larvae are active predators of terrestrial or aquatic mollusks. Adults are characterised by a head with an antero-dorsally projecting profile, a pedicel subequal to or twice the length of the first flagellomere, and absence of a proepisternal seta (Marinoni & Knutson 2010).

<==Tetanocerini [Tetanocerinae] MK10
    |--Limnia unguicornis K87, K01
    |--Sepedoninus MK10
    |--Sepedonella nana MK10
    |--Euthycera arcuata MK10
    |--Tetanoceroides MK10
    |--Anticheta testacea K87
    |--Poecilographa decora K87
    |--Dictyacium ambiguum K87
    |--Pherbecta limenitis K87
    |--Trypetoptera canadensis K87
    |--Hedria mixta K87
    |--Thecomyia MK10
    |    |--T. chrysacra MK10
    |    `--T. longicornis MK10
    |--Sepedomerus MK10
    |    |--S. bipuncticeps MK10
    |    `--S. macropus MK10
    |--Elgiva K87
    |    |--E. rufa K01
    |    `--E. solicita K87
    |--Hoplodictya MK10
    |    |--H. setosa K87
    |    `--H. spinicornis MK10
    |--Teutoniomyia MK10
    |    |--T. costaricensis MK10
    |    `--T. plaumanni MK10
    |--Guatemalia MK10
    |    |--G. nigritarsis MK10
    |    `--G. straminata MK10
    |--Sepedonea MK10
    |    |--S. guatemalana MK10
    |    |--S. isthmi MK10
    |    `--S. lagoa MK10
    |--Protodictya MK10
    |    |--P. brasiliensis MK10
    |    |--P. iguassu MK10
    |    `--P. nubilipennis MK10
    |--Dictya MK10
    |    |--D. bergi MK10
    |    |--D. expansa K87
    |    |--D. guatemalana MK10
    |    |--D. matthewsi K87
    |    `--D. umbrarum MK10
    |--Sepedon [Sepedoninae] MK10
    |    |--S. armipes S68
    |    |--S. fuscipennis M90
    |    |--S. knutsoni MK10
    |    |--S. relictus K87
    |    |--S. rufipes [=Oscinis (Sepedon) rufipes] G20
    |    |--S. spinipes K87
    |    |    |--S. s. spinipes K87
    |    |    `--S. s. americana K87
    |    |--S. tenuicornis K87
    |    `--S. tenuipes S68
    `--Tetanocera WT11
         |--T. algira Macquart 1847 E12
         |--T. ferruginea WT11
         |--T. griseicollis K87
         |--T. marginata [=Oscinis (Tetanocera) marginata] G20
         |--T. montana K87
         |--T. phyllophora K87
         |--T. plebeja K87
         |--T. plumosa MK10
         |--T. punctulata K01
         |--T. reticulata K01
         |--T. spreta MK10
         |--T. unipunctata Macquart 1847 E12
         |--T. valida K87
         `--T. vittigera K01

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[E12] Evenhuis, N. L. 2012. Publication and dating of the Exploration Scientifique de l’Algérie: Histoire Naturelle des Animaux Articulés (1846–1849) by Pierre Hippolyte Lucas. Zootaxa 3448: 1–61.

[G20] Goldfuss, G. A. 1820. Handbuch der Naturgeschichte vol. 3. Handbuch der Zoologie pt 1. Johann Leonhard Schrag: Nürnberg.

[K01] Kertész, K. 1901. Legyek [Dipteren]. In: Horváth, G. (ed.) Zichy Jenő Gróf Harmadik Ázsiai Utazása [Dritte Asiatische Forschungsreise des Grafen Eugen Zichy] vol. 2. Zichy Jenő Gróf Harmadik Ázsiai Utazásának Állattani Eredményei [Zoologische Ergebnisse der Dritten Asiatischen Forschungsreise des Grafen Eugen Zichy] pp. 179–201. Victor Hornyánszky: Budapest, and Karl W. Hierseman: Leipzig.

[K87] Knutson, L. V. 1987. Sciomyzidae. In: McAlpine, J. F. (ed.) Manual of Nearctic Diptera vol. 2 pp. 927–940. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada.

[MK10] Marinoni, L., & L. Knutson. 2010. Sciomyzidae (snail-killing flies, marsh 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. 1017–1024. NRC Research Press: Ottawa.

[M90] McAlpine, J. F. 1990. Insecta: Diptera adults. In: Dindal, D. L. (ed.) Soil Biology Guide pp. 1211–1252. John Wiley & Sones: New York.

[S68] Steyskal, G. C. 1968. The number and kind of characters needed for significant numerical taxonomy. Systematic Zoology 17 (4): 474–477.

[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.