Aulacigastridae

Belongs within: Schizophora.

The Aulacigastridae are a group of small flies that may be attracted to freshly cut vegetation and sap fluxes. Membership of the group has been debated between authors with the Stenomicrinae alternatively being classified within the Periscelididae (Mathis & Rung 2010). Stenomicrinae have an arista with long pectinate rays whereas Aulacigaster have only short hairs on the arista (Teskey 1987).

<==AulacigastridaeRM10
    |  i. s.: SchizochroaT87
    |         Xenanthomyza larssoniT87
    |--Curiosimusca Rung et al. 2005RM10
    |--EchidnocephalodesRM10
    |--AulacigasterRM10
    |    |--A. electra [=Protoaulacigaster electra]RM10
    |    |--A. leucopezaT87
    |    |--A. melanoleucaRM10
    |    |--A. minutaRM10
    |    `--A. neoleucopezaWT11
    `--Stenomicrinae [Stenomicridae]MR10
         |--Planinasus electrus Grimaldi & Mathis 1993MR10
         |--CyamopsWT11
         |    |  i. s.: C. nebulosusT87
         |    |--C. americus Baptista & Mathis 1994BM96
         |    |--C. fasciatusBM96
         |    `--+--C. neotropicusBM96
         |       `--C. sabroskyi Baptista & Mathis 1996BM96
         `--StenomicraRM10
              |--S. anacrostichalisMR10
              |--S. angustataT87
              |--S. fascipennisO98
              |--S. orientalisMR10
              `--S. sabroskyiMR10

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[BM96] Baptista, A. R. P., & W. N. Mathis. 1996. A new species of Cyamops Melander (Diptera: Periscelididae) from Brazil, with distributional notes on another species. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 98 (2): 245–248.

[MR10] Mathis, W. N., & A. Rung. 2010. Periscelididae (periscelid flies). In: Brown, B. V., A. Borkent, J. M. Cumming, D. M. Wood, N. E. Woodley & M. A. Zumbado (eds) Manual of Central American Diptera vol. 2 pp. 1087–1092. NRC Research Press: Ottawa.

[O98] Oosterbroek, P. 1998. The Families of Diptera of the Malay Archipelago. Brill: Leiden.

[RM10] Rung, A., & W. N. Mathis. 2010. Aulacigastridae (aulacigastrid flies). In: Brown, B. V., A. Borkent, J. M. Cumming, D. M. Wood, N. E. Woodley & M. A. Zumbado (eds) Manual of Central American Diptera vol. 2 pp. 1083–1085. NRC Research Press: Ottawa.

[T87] Teskey, H. J. 1987. Aulacigastridae. In: McAlpine, J. F. (ed.) Manual of Nearctic Diptera vol. 2 pp. 891–894. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada.

[WT11] Wiegmann, B. M., M. D. Trautwein, I. S. Winkler, N. B. Barr, J.-W. Kim, C. Lambkin, M. A. Bertone, B. K. Cassel, K. M. Bayless, A. M. Heimberg, B. M. Wheeler, K. J. Peterson, T. Pape, B. J. Sinclair, J. H. Skevington, V. Blagoderov, J. Caravas, S. N. Kutty, U. Schmidt-Ott, G. E. Kampmeier, F. C. Thompson, D. A. Grimaldi, A. T. Beckenbach, G. W. Courtney, M. Friedrich, R. Meier & D. K. Yeates. 2011. Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 108 (14): 5690–5695.