Nurteria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Sympycninae
Genus: Nurteria
Dyte & Smith, 1980[1]
Type species
Turneria depressa
Parent, 1935[2]
Synonyms[2]

Nurteria is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, found in the Afrotropical realm.[1] Three species are currently known in the genus, but there are also numerous undescribed species of the genus from southern Africa. It was originally described in the subfamily Diaphorinae, though it possesses some features of the Sympycninae.[4][5]

The genus was originally described by Octave Parent in 1934 with the name Turneria, including two species. A third species was described by Parent in 1935. Dyte & Smith (1980) found that the name of the genus was preoccupied by the ant genus Turneria, and so they renamed it to Nurteria, designating one of Parent's originally included species as the type. According to Neal Evenhuis in 2008, the original use of the name Turneria by Parent (1934) is a nomen nudum, because no type species was designated for the genus. The name later became available in Parent (1935), where the only species included becomes the type species by monotypy.[2]

Species

The genus includes three species:[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Dyte, C. E.; Smith, K. G. V. (1980). "Family Dolichopodidae". In Crosskey, R.W. (ed.). A Catalogue of Diptera of the Afrotropical Region. London: British Museum (Natural History). pp. 443–463. ISBN 978-0565008215.
  2. 1 2 3 Evenhuis, Neal L.; Pape, Thomas; Pont, Adrian C. (2008). "The problems of subsequent typification in genus-group names and use of the Zoological Record: a study of selected post-1930 Diptera genus-group names without type species designations" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1912: 1–44. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1912.1.1.
  3. 1 2 Parent, O. (1934). "Additions a la faune ethiopienne (Dipteres: Dolichopodides)". Bulletin de la Société entomologique d'Égypte. 18: 112–138.
  4. ↑ Grichanov, Igor Ya. (2010). "Aphasmaphleps, a New Genus of Long-Legged Flies from Senegal, with a Key to the Genera of Afrotropical Diaphorinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). African Invertebrates. 51 (2): 405–412. doi:10.5733/afin.051.0209.
  5. ↑ Capellari, Renato S.; Grichanov, Igor Ya. (2012). "Review of the Afrotropical Genus Aphasmaphleps Grichanov (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). African Invertebrates. 53 (1): 35–46. doi:10.5733/afin.053.0102.


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