Ulurumyiidae - a new family of calyptrate flies (Diptera)

TY - JOUR

T1 - Ulurumyiidae - a new family of calyptrate flies (Diptera)

AU - Michelsen, Verner

AU - Pape, Thomas

PY - 2017/10

Y1 - 2017/10

N2 - A new monotypic and monospecific family Ulurumyiidae fam.n., type genus Ulurumyia gen.n., is erected for the species Ulurumyia macalpinei sp.n. from southeastern Australia. The family is unambiguously a member of the superfamily Oestroidea within Calyptratae, and available evidence supports noninclusion in any of the known families, but phylogenetic affinities are otherwise obscure. The species is a coprophage with obligate lecithotrophic unilarviparity, known to breed in cow dung but not known from the dung of any native Australian mammal.

AB - A new monotypic and monospecific family Ulurumyiidae fam.n., type genus Ulurumyia gen.n., is erected for the species Ulurumyia macalpinei sp.n. from southeastern Australia. The family is unambiguously a member of the superfamily Oestroidea within Calyptratae, and available evidence supports noninclusion in any of the known families, but phylogenetic affinities are otherwise obscure. The species is a coprophage with obligate lecithotrophic unilarviparity, known to breed in cow dung but not known from the dung of any native Australian mammal.

U2 - 10.1111/syen.12252

DO - 10.1111/syen.12252

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0307-6970

VL - 42

SP - 826

EP - 836

JO - Systematic Entomology

JF - Systematic Entomology

IS - 4

ER -