Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-hvd4g Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-10T23:57:16.377Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Five new aquatic dance flies of the genus Hemerodromia Meigen (Diptera: Empididae: Hemerodromiinae) from Puerto Rico*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

P.P. Harper  and
E.C. Masteller
P.P. Harper*
Affiliation:
Département de sciences biologiques, Université de Montréal, C. P. 6128, Succursale “Centre-Ville”, Montréal, QC, Canada H3C 3J7
E.C. Masteller
Affiliation:
The Behrend College, Pennsylvania State University at Erie, and Tom Ridge Environmental Center, Erie, PA 16505, United States of America
*
1Corresponding author (e-mail: harper@videotron.ca).
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Systematic emergence trapping in two streams in the Luquillo Mountains Experimental Rainforest in Puerto Rico from 1989 to 1992 produced five new species of aquatic dance flies (Diptera: Empididae: Hemerodromiinae). They are described and illustrated as Hemerodromia marci Masteller new species, Hemerodromia melissa Masteller new species, Hemerodromia oncilla Masteller new species, Hemerodromia prieta Harper new species, and Hemerodromia simonis Harper new species.

Résumé

Des récoltes systématiques avec des pièges à émergence dans deux cours d'eau dans la forêt tropicale expérimentale des montagnes de Luquillo à Porto-Rico de 1989 à 1992 ont fourni cinq nouvelles espèces de mouches dansantes aquatiques (Diptera: Empididae: Hemerodromiinae). Nous les décrivons et les illustrons : Hemerodromia marci Masteller nouvelle espèce, Hemerodromia melissa Masteller nouvelle espèce, Hemerodromia oncilla Masteller nouvelle espèce, Hemerodromia prieta Harper nouvelle espèce et Hemerodromia simonis Harper nouvelle espèce.

Type
Systematics & Morphology
Information
The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 146 , Issue 3 , June 2014 , pp. 241 - 247
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 2013 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

Subject editor: Bradley Sinclair

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5E23FDCF-DEED-42EF-A153-2FF7D924B03B

References

Cumming, J.M.Sinclair, B.J. 2009. Empididae (dance flies, balloon flies, predacious flies). In Manual of Central American Diptera. Volume 1. Edited by B.V. Brown, A. Borkent, D.M. Wood, and M. Zumbado. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Pp. 653–670.Google Scholar
MacDonald, J.F. 1994. Review of the Nearctic species of the genus Chelifera Macquart (Diptera: Empididae; Hemerodromiinae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 96: 236–275.Google Scholar
MacDonald, J.F. 1998. Review of the genus Hemerodromia Meigen (Diptera: Empididae; Hemerodromiinae) of America North of Mexico. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 100: 792–823.Google Scholar
Masteller, E.C.Buzby, K.M. 1993a. Composition and temporal abundance of aquatic insect emergence from a tropical rainforest stream, Quebrada Prieta, at El Verde, Puerto Rico. Introduction. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 66: 133–139.Google Scholar
Masteller, E.C.Buzby, K.M. 1993b. Emergence phenology of Empididae, Ceratopogonidae, and Simuliidae (Diptera) from a tropical rainforest stream at El Verde, Puerto Rico. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 66: 187–191.Google Scholar
Melander, A.L. 1928. Diptera, Family Empididae. In Genera Insectorum, Fascicule 185. Edited by P. Wytsman and P. Louis. Desmet-Verteneuil, Brussels, Belgium. Pp. 1–434.Google Scholar
Melander, A.L. 1947. Synopsis of the Hemerodromiinae (Diptera: Empididae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 55: 237–273.Google Scholar
Smith, K.G.V. 1967. A Catalogue of the Diptera of the Americas South of the United States. 39. Family Empididae (Empidae, Hybotidae). Departamento do Zoologia, Secretaria da Agricultura, Sao Paulo, Brazil.Google Scholar
Steyskal, G.C.Knutson, L.V. 1981. Empididae. In Manual of Nearctic Diptera. Volume 1, chapter 47. Edited by J.F. McAlpine, B.V. Peterson, G.E. Shewell, H.J. Teskey, J.R. Vockeroth, and D.M. Wood. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Pp. 607–624.Google Scholar
Williston, S.W. 1896. On the Diptera of St. Vincent (West Indies). Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1896: 253–449.Google Scholar