Biology:Ceratopos

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Short description: Genus of flies

Ceratopos
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Sympycninae
Genus: Ceratopos
Vaillant, 1952[1]
Species:
C. seguyi
Binomial name
Ceratopos seguyi
Vaillant, 1952[1]

Ceratopos is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, known from Algeria and Portugal.[2] It contains only one species, Ceratopos seguyi.[3] It is closely related to Syntormon,[4] and is considered a junior synonym of it according to Evenhuis & Bickel (2022).[5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Vaillant, F. (1952). "Contribution à l'étude des Dolichopodidés d'Algérie". Bulletin de la Société d'histoire naturelle d'Afrique du Nord 41 (5–6): 35–40. 
  2. Pollet, M.; Andrade, R.; Gonçalves, A.; Andrade, P.; Jacinto, V.; Almeida, J.; De Braekeleer, A.; Van Calster, H. et al. (2019). "Dipterological surveys in Portugal unveil 200 species of long-legged flies, with over 170 new to the country (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". Zootaxa 4649 (1): 1–69. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4649.1.1. PMID 31716932. 
  3. Negrobov, O.P. (1991). "Family Dolichopodidae". in Soós, A.; Papp, L.. Dolichopodidae–Platypezidae. Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. 7. Elsevier. pp. 11–136. ISBN 9780444599940. https://books.google.com/books?id=HDajGf3u6csC&pg=PA57. 
  4. Bickel, D. J. (1999). "Australian Sympycninae II: Syntormon Loew and Nothorhaphium, gen. nov., with a treatment of the Western Pacific fauna, and notes on the subfamily Rhaphiinae and Dactylonotus Parent (Diptera : Dolichopodidae)". Invertebrate Taxonomy 13 (1): 179–206. doi:10.1071/IT97028. 
  5. Evenhuis, N.L.; Bickel, D.J. (2021). "Nomenclatural and taxonomic notes on Dolichopodidae genus-group names (Insecta: Diptera)". Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 141 (Systema Dipterorum Nomenclatural Notes. I.): 5–11. http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/op141p5-11.pdf. 

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