Bibionidae

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 : 12

Bibionidae ( Fig. 15 )

The family comprises more than 1,000 extant species, grouped into two subfamilies and seven genera ( Skartveit 2017). Pinto & Amorim (2000) and Fitzgerald et al. (2020) have studied the phylogeny and classification of this family. For Chile, 33 species are known belonging to the genera Plecia Wiedemann and Dilophus Meigen ( Fitzgerald et al. 2020) .

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).