Little dance flies

Little dance flies
	Microphor holosericeus , female
Systematics
Order :	Fly (Diptera)
Subordination :	Flies (Brachycera)
Partial order :	Asilomorpha
Superfamily :	Empidoidea
Family :	Long-legged flies (Dolichopodidae)
Subfamily :	Little dance flies
Scientific name
	Microphorinae
	Collin , 1960
Genera
	Microphor; Microphorella; Parathalassius; Schistostoma;

The small dance flies (Microphorinae) are a subfamily of the long-legged flies . Like all flies , they belong to the two-winged species (Diptera).

Way of life

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Microphor holosericeus on spider prey

The diet of the representatives of the genus Microphor is interesting . These flies suckle on prey caught in cobwebs.

As far as is known, the larvae of the little dance flies live in the ground.

Systematics

The representatives of this subfamily were previously assigned to the dance flies (Empididae), but separated from these due to morphological differences and established in 1983 by M. Chvála as a separate family. In 2006, after a cladistic study by Bradley J. Sinclair and Jeffrey M. Cumming, they were incorporated as a subfamily in the family of long-legged flies (Dolichopodidae). Currently only the genera Microphor and Schistostoma are counted in this subfamily, in Europe there are eight species of the genus Microphor and four species of the genus Schistostoma .

European species:

Microphor albopilosus ( Becker , 1910)
Microphor anomalus ( Meigen , 1824)
Microphor crassipes ( Macquart , 1827)
Microphor holosericeus ( Meigen , 1804)
Microphor intermedius ( Collin , 1961)
Microphor pilimanus ( Strobl , 1899)
Microphor rostellatus ( Loew , 1864)
Microphor strobli Chvála , 1986

Schistostoma discretum Collin , 1949
Schistostoma nigrosetosum Chvála , 1987
Schistostoma thalhammeri Chvála , 1987
Schistostoma truncatum ( Loew , 1864)

swell

Individual evidence

^ JE Collin: Some Empididae from Palestine. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 13, 2 (1959), pp. 385-420, 1960, p. 393 (first description of this group)
↑ M. Chvála: The Empidoidea (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. II. General Part. The families Hybotidae, Atelestidae and Microphoridae. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, 12, pp. 1-279, 1983
↑ Bradley J. Sinclair & Jeffrey M. Cumming: Morphology, higher-level phylogeny and classification of the Empidoidea. Zootaxa, 1180, pp. 1–172, Magnolia Press, 2006 PDF (English)
↑ Microphoridae. Fauna Europaea, Version 1.3, April 19, 2007, accessed June 9, 2008 .

literature

Klaus Honomichl, Heiko Bellmann : Biology and ecology of insects ; CD-Rom, Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1994.

Web links

Commons : Kleine Tanzfliegen (Microphorinae) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

[Collin_1960-1] JE Collin: Some Empididae from Palestine. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 13, 2 (1959), pp. 385-420, 1960, p. 393 (first description of this group)

[Chvala_1983-2] M. Chvála: The Empidoidea (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. II. General Part. The families Hybotidae, Atelestidae and Microphoridae. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, 12, pp. 1-279, 1983

[Sinclair_2006-3] Bradley J. Sinclair & Jeffrey M. Cumming: Morphology, higher-level phylogeny and classification of the Empidoidea. Zootaxa, 1180, pp. 1–172, Magnolia Press, 2006 PDF (English)

[Fauna-4] Microphoridae. Fauna Europaea, Version 1.3, April 19, 2007, accessed June 9, 2008 .