Asioligochaetus

Asioligochaetus is a disputed genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It contains only one species, Asioligochaetus vlasovi, which is distributed in Central Asia. Asioligochaetus was originally proposed as a subgenus of Medetera by Oleg Negrobov in 1966. In Bickel (1985)'s revision of the Nearctic Medetera species, Asioligochaetus was treated as a synonym of Medetera, with the only species (M. vlasovi) included as a member of the petulca species group.[1] Alternatively, because of its peculiar combination of characters, Asioligochaetus was raised to genus rank by Igor Grichanov in 2009.[2]

Asioligochaetus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Medeterinae
Tribe: Medeterini
Genus: Asioligochaetus
Negrobov, 1966
Species:
A. vlasovi
Binomial name
Asioligochaetus vlasovi
(Stackelberg, 1937)
Synonyms

Oligochaetus vlasovi Stackelberg, 1937

References
  1. Bickel, D.J. (1985). "A revision of the Nearctic Medetera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin (1692): 1–109. doi:10.22004/ag.econ.309598.
  2. Grichanov, I. Ya. (2009). "Review of the genus Dolichophorus Lichtward, 1902 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae)" (PDF). Far Eastern Entomologist (201): 1–16.


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