Orthoceratium

Orthoceratium is a genus of fly in the family Dolichopodidae.[3] It is known from the West Palaearctic and Tanzania.

Orthoceratium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Hydrophorinae
Genus: Orthoceratium
Schrank, 1803[1]
Type species
Musca lacustre
Scopoli, 1763
Synonyms

In 2018, researchers Marc Pollet and Andreas Stark found that the species Orthoceratium sabulosum in northwestern Europe had been misidentified as Orthoceratium lacustre for over 250 years. This was explained by them as a result of previous authors copying identification keys with misleading information, the omission by those authors to study the type specimens of O. sabulosum, and the loss of those of O. lacustre.[4]

Species
  • Orthoceratium lacustre (Scopoli, 1763)
  • Orthoceratium sabulosum (Becker, 1907)[5]

References
  1. Schrank, F. von P. (1803). Favna Boica. Durchgedachte Geschichte der in Baiern einheimischen und zahmen Thiere. 3. Krull, Landshut. pp. viii + 1–372 pp.
  2. Mik, Josef (1878). "Dipterologische Untersuchungen". Jahresber. K. K. Akad. Gymnasium: 1–24, 1 pl.
  3. 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.
  4. Pollet, M.; Stark, A. (2018). "The quest for the identity of Orthoceratium lacustre (Scopoli, 1763) reveals centuries of misidentifications (Diptera, Dolichopodidae)". ZooKeys (782): 49–79. doi:10.3897/zookeys.782.26329. PMC 6160834. PMID 30275719.
  5. Becker, T. (1907). "Die Ergebnisse meiner dipterologischen Fruhjahrsreise nach Algier und Tunis, 1906". Z. Syst. Hymenopt. Dipterol. 7: 33–61. Retrieved 13 July 2016.


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