Axymyiidae
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The Nematoceran family Axymyiidae is the sole member of the infraorder Axymyiomorpha, though it is often included within the infraorder Bibionomorpha in older classifications. It is known from only nine species in four genera, plus eight fossil species.
Family characteristics
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The Axymyiidae have the general appearance of the Bibionidae. Unlike bibionids, axymyiids have four branches of the radial vein, Bibionidae have two or three.
The head is rounded. The eyes of the male are holoptic for a considerable distance and divided into a larger dorsal part consisting of large facets and (separated by a groove) a smaller ventral part of smaller facets. The eyes of the female are separated by a broad frons and consist of separated facets. The three ocelli are on a prominence. The antennae are short with 14 to 16 transverse segments which are covered with sparse, short hairs. The oral parts are reduced. The palpi are four- to five-segmented.
Wings have an ocellus. Wing-venation: The subcostal vein merges into the anterior alar margin near its midpoint; radial vein 1 reaches the distal quarter of wings, there usually fused with radial vein 2+3; radial vein 4 is branched proximal to the anterior crossvein of the wing. Median vein 1 and 2 have short trunks. The anal vein does not reach the alar margin.
The tibiae are slightly longer than the femora, but somewhat shorter than the tarsi. The empodium and pulvilli are well developed.
Biology
Larvae live in decomposing wood.
Genera
The family contains four extant genera and four extinct genera:[1][2][3][4][5]
- Axymyia McAtee, 1921Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Axymyia furcata McAtee, 1921Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Mesaxymyia Mamaev, 1968Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Mesaxymyia kerteszi (Duda, 1930)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Mesaxymyia stackelbergi Mamaev, 1968Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Plesioaxymyia Sinclair, 2013Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Plesioaxymyia vespertina Sinclair, 2013Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Protaxymyia Mamaev & Krivosheina, 1966Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Protaxymyia japonica (Ishida, 1953)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Protaxymyia melanoptera Mamaev & Krivosheina, 1966Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Protaxymyia sinica Yang, 1993Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Protaxymyia taiwanensis Papp, 2007Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Protaxymyia thuja Fitzgerald & Wood, 2014Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- †Juraxymyia Zhang, 2010Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- †Juraxymyia evae Blagoderov & Lukashevich, 2013Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- †Juraxymyia fossilis (Zhang, 2004)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- †Juraxymyia krzeminskii Blagoderov & Lukashevich, 2013Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- †Psocites Hong, 1992Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- †Psocites pectinatus (Hong, 1983)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- †Raraxymyia Shi et al., 2013Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- †Raraxymyia parallela Shi et al., 2013Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- †Raraxymyia proxima Shi et al., 2013Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- †Sinaxymyia Zhang, 2010Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- †Sinaxymyia rara Zhang, 2010Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- †Sinaxymyia szadziewskii Blagoderov & Lukashevich, 2013Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
References
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- Krivosheina, M. G. 2000. A. 2. Family Axymyiidae, pp. 31–39. In L. Papp, and B. Darvas [eds.]. Contribution to a Manual of the Palaearctic Diptera, Appendix. Science Herald, Budapest, Hungary.
- B. M. Mamaev Family Axymyiidae in Bei-Bienko, G. Ya, 1988 Keys to the insects of the European Part of the USSR Volume 5 (Diptera) Part 2 English edition.
- Mamaev, B. M. 1968. New nematocerous Diptera of the USSR fauna (Diptera, Axymyiidae, Mycetobiidae, Sciaridae, Cecidomyiidae). Entomol. Oboz. 47: 605–616.
- Mamaev, B. M., and N. P. Krivosheina. 1966. New data on the taxonomy and biology of Diptera of the family Axymyiidae. Entomol. Obozr. 45: 168–180.
External links
- UBC Diptera Description of Order and Families in British Columbia Family description.