Phoridae (Brown, 1992)

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 : 28

Phoridae ( Figs 64–66 )

This family comprises over 3,000 extant species, grouped into five subfamilies and 250 genera ( Brown et al. 2015). Sciadocerinae , formerly belonging to the family rank, is now considered a subfamily of Phoridae ( Brown 1992) . The sister group relationship of sciadocerines with the remaining phorids was corroborated by a detailed morphological phylogeny by Brown et al. (2015). Borgmeier (1971), Calcaterra et al. (2007) and Ament (2018) recorded for the first time in Chile the genera Beckerina Malloch , Pseudacteon Coquillet , and Hirotophora Brown, Amorim & Kung. Silva (1916) published one of the early works on the family in Chile. A total of 52 species belonging to 20 genera are currently known from Chile. It is worth mentioning that Archiphora , known from a single species in Chile, is a sister to Sciadocera , present in New Zealand and Australia.

Figures

FIGURES 62–67. Platypezoidea of Chile: (62) Lonchoptera bifurcata (Fallen) (Lonchopteridae, photo by Claudio Maureira); (63) Puyehuemyia chandleri Amorim, Silva & Brown (Opetiidae, photo by Dalton de Souza Amorim); (64) Archiphora cf. patagonica (Schmitz) (Phoridae, photo by Dalton de Souza Amorim); (65) Phorid fly species feed on juices (Phoridae, photo by Claudio Maureira); (66) phorid fly attacking to Camponotus ant. The yellow arrows identify the flies (Phoridae, photo by Patrich Cerpa), and (67) Platypezidae (photo by Matías Gargiulo).