Subfamily Brachystomatinae Melander, 1908

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• Brachystomatinae Melander, 1908.

  Type genus:

   Brachystoma Meigen, 1822.

Introduction

Brachystomatidae was established as family of empidoid flies, following Sinclair & Cumming's (2006) revised classification of the Empidoidea. Wahlberg & Johanson (2018) bring the taxon back to the subfamily rank within the Empididae.
The Australian fauna currently consists of 20 species from three genera. Ceratomerus is the most speciose genus with 18 species, based largely on the work of Sinclair (2003). Species of this genus are characteristically found resting on rocks along streams in upland areas.

General References

Evenhuis, N.L. 2008. Family Brachystomatidae. In Evenhuis, N.L. (ed.) Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. 30 April 2008. http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/aocat/brachystomatidae.html

Sinclair, B.J. 2003. Taxonomy, phylogeny and zoogeography of the subfamily Ceratomerinae of Australia (Diptera: Empidoidea). Records of the Australian Museum 55(1): 1-44 [Date published 16 April]

Sinclair, B.J. & Cumming, J.M. 2006. The morphology, higher-level phylogeny and classification of the Empidoidea (Diptera). Zootaxa 1180: 1-172 [60]

Wahlberg, E. & Johanson, K.A. 2018. Molecular phylogenetics reveals novel relationships within Empidoidea (Diptera). Systematic Entomology 43: 619–636 [625]

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