Paramedetera

Paramedetera is a genus of fly in the family Dolichopodidae.[1] It is distributed from southern China and Southeast Asia to Papua New Guinea, with a single species from the Afrotropical realm.[2] It is placed in the subfamily Medeterinae, though molecular phylogenetic analyses suggest it may not belong in that subfamily.[3] Unlike most members of Medeterinae, which are arboreal, Paramedetera is soil-dwelling and lives near aquatic habitats.[2]

Paramedetera
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Medeterinae
Genus: Paramedetera
Grootaert & Meuffels, 1997[1]
Type species
Paramedetera papuensis
Grootaert & Meuffels, 1997[1]

Species
  • Paramedetera ankarum Grootaert & Meuffels, 1997 – Thailand, Singapore
  • Paramedetera borneensis Grootaert & Meuffels, 1997 – Brunei
  • Paramedetera bruneiensis Grootaert & Meuffels, 1997 – Brunei
  • Paramedetera chelata Grootaert, 2006[2] – Singapore
  • Paramedetera digitata Grootaert, 2006[2] – Singapore
  • Paramedetera elongata Zhu, Yang & Grootaert, 2006[2] – China
  • Paramedetera horrorifera Grootaert & Meuffels, 1997 – Thailand
  • Paramedetera jinxiuensis Yang & Saigusa, 2001[4] – China (Guangxi)
  • Paramedetera medialis Yang & Saigusa, 1999 – China (Henan)
  • Paramedetera micropyga Grootaert, 2006[2] – Singapore
  • Paramedetera obscura Grootaert, 2006[2] – Singapore
  • Paramedetera orientalis (Hollis, 1976)[1] – Sumatra
  • Paramedetera papuensis Grootaert & Meuffels, 1997[1] – Papua New Guinea
  • Paramedetera sierraleonensis Grichanov, 1999 – Sierra Leone
  • Paramedetera sumatrensis Grootaert & Meuffels, 1997[1] – Sumatra
  • Paramedetera turschi Grootaert & Meuffels, 1997 – Thailand

References
  1. Grootaert, P.; Meuffels, H. J. G. (1997). "Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from Papua New Guinea. 14. Paramedetera, a new genus in the Medeterinae". Invertebrate Taxonomy. 11 (2): 309–319. doi:10.1071/IT96001.
  2. Grootaert, P. (2006). "The genus Paramedetera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) in Singapore, with a key to the Oriental species" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 54 (1): 49–57. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
  3. Pollet, M.; Germann, C.; Bernasconi, M.V. (2011). "Phylogenetic analyses using molecular markers reveal ecological lineages in Medetera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). The Canadian Entomologist. 143 (6): 662–673. doi:10.4039/n11-031. S2CID 85695138.
  4. Zhu, Y.; Yang, D.; Grootaert, P. (2006). "A new species of Paramedetera, with a key to species from China (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". Annales Zoologici. 56 (2): 323–326. doi:10.3161/000345406778700784 (inactive 31 January 2024).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024 (link)


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