Philopotinae

Subfamily of flies

Philopotinae

Helle longirostris
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Acroceridae
Subfamily:	Philopotinae Schiner, 1867^[1]
Genera
See text

Philopotinae is a subfamily of small-headed flies. They have an arched body shape, as well as enlarged postpronotal lobes that form a collar behind the head. Their larvae are endoparasites of araneomorph spiders in the subgroup Entelegynae.^[2]

Genera

The subfamily includes twelve extant genera and four extinct:^[2]

Africaterphis Schlinger, 1968
†Archaeterphis Hauser & Winterton, 2007^[3]
Dimacrocolus Schlinger, 1961
†Eulonchiella Meunier, 1912
Helle Osten Sacken, 1896^[4]
†Hoffeinsomyia Gillung & Winterton, 2017^[5]
Megalybus Philippi, 1865
Neophilopota Schlinger in Schlinger, Gillung & Borkent, 2013^[6]
Oligoneura Bigot, 1878
Parahelle Schlinger, 1961
Philopota Wiedemann, 1830
†Prophilopota Hennig, 1966
Quasi Gillung & Winterton, 2011^[7]
Schlingeriella Gillung & Winterton, 2011^[7]
Terphis Erichson, 1840
Thyllis Erichson, 1840

References

^ Sabrosky, C.W. (1999). "Family-Group Names in Diptera" (PDF). Myia. 10: 1–360. (page 242)
^ ^a ^b Gillung, Jessica P.; Winterton, Shawn L. (2019). "Evolution of fossil and living spider flies based on morphological and molecular data (Diptera, Acroceridae)". Systematic Entomology. 44 (4): 820–841. Bibcode:2019SysEn..44..820G. doi:10.1111/syen.12358.
^ Hauser, Martin; Winterton, Shaun L. (2007). "A New Fossil Genus of Small-Headed Flies (Diptera: Acroceridae: Philopotinae) from Baltic Amber". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 100 (2): 152–156. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2007)100[152:ANFGOS]2.0.CO;2.
^ Osten Sacken, C.R. (1896). "A new genus of Cyrtidae (Dipt.) from New Zealand". Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 32: 16–18.
^ Gillung, Jessica P.; Winterton, Shaun L. (2017). "A review of fossil spider flies (Diptera: Acroceridae) with descriptions of new genera and species from Baltic Amber". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 16 (4): 325–350. doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1289566. S2CID 90493326.
^ Schlinger, Evert I.; Gillung, Jessica P.; Borkent, Christopher J. (2013). "New spider flies from the Neotropical Region (Diptera, Acroceridae) with a key to New World genera". ZooKeys (270): 59–93. Bibcode:2013ZooK..270...59S. doi:10.3897/zookeys.270.4476. PMC 3668421. PMID 23730188.
^ ^a ^b Gillung, Jéssica P.; Winterton, Shaun L. (2011). "New genera of philopotine spider flies (Diptera, Acroceridae) with a key to living and fossil genera". ZooKeys (127): 15–27. Bibcode:2011ZooK..127...15G. doi:10.3897/zookeys.127.1824. PMC 3175128. PMID 21998545.