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SYSTEMATIC POSITION OF THE GENUS OMOMYIA COQUILLETT AND ITS TRANSFERENCE TO THE RICHARDIIDAE (DIPTERA)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. F. McAlpine
J. F. McAlpine
Affiliation:
Biosystematics Research Institute, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa
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Abstract

The characters of Omomyia are compared with those of the tephritoid complex of families (Lonchaeidae, Otitidae, Platystomatidae, Pyrgotidae, Tephritidae, Tachiniscidae, Richardiidae, Pallopteridae, Neotteophilidae, Piophilidae, and Thyreophoridae). The possession of a peculiar piercing-type ovipositor by all females of this assemblage, including Omomyia, is considered a strong synapomorphic feature of the complex. Omomyia is found to be a sister-group of two aberrant richardiid genera, Automola Loew and Epiplatea Loew. Consequently, Omomyia is transferred from the Thyreophoridae to the Richardiidae with a suggestion that Automola, Epiplatea, Omomyia, and several other genera represent a separate subfamily of Richardiidae. The paper contains one table and three figures.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 108 , Issue 8 , August 1976 , pp. 849 - 853
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1976

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