Paraleucopidae, Wheeler, 2019

Barahona-Segovia, Rodrigo M., Madriz, Isaí, González, Christian R. & Amorim, Dalton De Souza, 2024, An update on the knowledge and general understanding of the Chilean Diptera diversity, Zootaxa 5518 (1), pp. 1-87 : 42

Paraleucopidae ( Fig. 110 )

This small family comprises at least 12 species distributed in the Nearctic, Neotropical and Australasian Regions and is grouped into three genera ( Wheeler & Sinclair 2019). Previously included in the family Psilidae , Paraleucopidae was erected to family rank by Wheeler & Sinclair (2019), who described several species from different parts of the world into three genera. In Chile, all three genera of the family are represented: Schizostomyia atra Malloch , Paraleucopis bispinosa Wheeler & Sinclair , and Mallochianamyia Santos-Neto , with 11 species ( Wheeler 2000; Wheeler & Sinclair 2019).

Figures

FIGURES 105–110. Sphaeroceridae (continued) and Opomyzoidea of Chile: (105) Antrops annulatus (Richards) and (106) Frutillaria sp. (Sphaeroceridae, both photos by Claudio Maureira); (107) Liriomyza cf. huidobrensis (Blanchard) (Agromyzidae, photo by Ricardo Varela); (108) Cerodontha flavifrons (Philippi) (Agromyzidae, photo by Dalton de Souza Amorim); (109) Apiochaeta similis (Malloch) (Clusiidae, photo by Diego Gutiérrez), and (110) Schizostomyia cf. atra Malloch (Paraleucopidae, photo by Matías Gargiulo).