Machaerium (fly)

Machaerium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Dolichopodidae
Subfamily:	Hydrophorinae
Tribe:	Thinophilini
Genus:	Machaerium Haliday, 1832[1]
Type species
Machaerium maritimae Haliday, 1832[1]
Synonyms
Macherium Rondani, 1856 (unjustified emendation)[2] Smiliotus Loew, 1857[3]

Machaerium is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.[4] It is distributed in the Western Palaearctic, with a single record from Tanzania in the Afrotropics.[5]

Species

• Machaerium maritimae Haliday, 1832[1] – Europe, North Africa
• Machaerium sordidum Becker, 1908[6] – Canary Islands
• Machaerium thinophilum (Loew, 1857)[3] – Italy, Croatia, Tanzania[5]

Machaerium henanense Yang & Grootaert, 1999[7] has been renamed to Nepalomyia hui Yang & Wang, 2006[4]

References

1. Haliday, A. H. (1832). "The characters of two new dipterous genera, with indications of some generic subdivisions and several undescribed species of Dolichopodidae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 5: 350–368, pl. 15.
2. O'Hara, James E.; Cerretti, Pierfilippo; Pape, Thomas; Evenhuis, Neal L. (2011). "Nomenclatural Studies Toward a World List of Diptera Genus-Group Names. Part II: Camillo Rondani" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3141: 1–268.
3. Loew, Hermann (1857). "Neue Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Dipteren. Fünfter Beitrag". Programm der Königlichen Realschule zu Meseritz: 1–56.
4. Yang, D.; Zhu, Y.; Wang, M.; Zhang, L. (2006). World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera). Beijing: China Agricultural University Press. pp. 1–704. ISBN 9787811171020.
5. Grichanov, I. Ya. (2011). "An illustrated synopsis and keys to afrotropical genera of the epifamily Dolichopodoidae (Diptera: Empidoidea)". Priamus Supplement (24): 1–98.
6. Becker, T. (1908). "Dipteren der Kanarischen Inseln". Mitteilungen aus dem zoologischen Museum in Berlin. 4. Berlin: 1–180, 4 pls. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
7. Yang, D.; Grootaert, P. (1999). "New and little known species of Dolichopodidae from China (V)" (PDF). Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique. Entomologie. 69: 215–232.