Mythicomyiidae (Melander, 1902)

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 : 19

Mythicomyiidae ( Figs 36–37 )

The family comprises over 380 species, grouped into six subfamilies and 30 extant genera ( Evenhuis 2002; Evenhuis 2017). Since their separation from Bombyliidae ( Zaitzev 1992) , several authors have corroborated their position as sisters to Bombyliidae (for example, Wiegmann et al. 2011). Greathead & Evenhuis (2001) proposed six subfamilies: Psiloderoidinae , Platypyginae , Glabellulinae , Empidideicinae, Leylaiyinae and Mythicomyiinae . For Chile, 11 species are referred to three genera: Mythicomyia (Heterhybos) Coquillet , with nine species; and Glella quebradae Hall and Pieza agnastis (Hall) ( Evenhuis 2002) with one species each.

Figures

FIGURES 32–37. Bombyliidae and Mythicomyiidae of Chile: (32) Phthiria tristis Bigot (Bombyliidae, photo by Vicente Valdés); (33) Nectaropota setigera Philippi (Bombyliidae, photo by ValeG); (34) Hyperalonia chilensis Rondani (Bombyliidae, photo by Luis Romero); (35) Platamomyia depressa (Loew) (Bombyliidae, photo by Matías Cortés); (36) Mythicomyia sp., (Mythicomyiidae, photo by Mauricio Quezada), and (37) Mythicomyia problis Hall (Mythicomyiidae, photo by Michael Weymann).