Keroplatidae, Rondani, 1856

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 : 13

Keroplatidae ( Fig. 17 )

The family comprises 912 extant species, grouped into four subfamilies and 86 genera ( Falaschi 2020), or separated into three subfamilies ( Matile 1990; Evenhuis 2006). For Chile, 25 species in five genera are known ( Evenhuis 2006). There are no recent taxonomic studies on the family. A considerably large number of undescribed species of the family are expected to be present in the Chilean fauna.

Figures

FIGURES 14–19. Bibionomorpha of Chile: (14) Lobogaster paradoxus Philippi, 1865 (Anisopodidae, photo by Cristóbal Ponce); (15) Dilophus sp. (Bibionidae; photo by Patrick Vyvyan); (16) Cecidomyiidae (photo by Vicente Valdés); (17) Keroplatidae (photo by Diego Gutiérrez); (18) Mycetophila lacuna Freeman (Mycetophilidae, photo by Anthony Campos); (19) cf. Coboldia sp. (Scaptopsidae, photo by Claudio Maureira).