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Ulurumyiidae – a new family of calyptrate flies (Diptera)

Author(s) -

Michelsen Verner,

Pape Thomas

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

systematic entomology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.552

H-Index - 66

eISSN - 1365-3113

pISSN - 0307-6970

DOI - 10.1111/syen.12252

Subject(s) - biology , obligate , type genus , zoology , phylogenetic tree , genus , superfamily , breed , mammal , marine larval ecology , affinities , ecology , type species , larva , genetics , biochemistry , gene

A new monotypic and monospecific family Ulurumyiidae fam.n. , type genus Ulurumyia gen.n. , is erected for the species Ulurumyia macalpinei sp.n. from southeastern Australia. The family is unambiguously a member of the superfamily Oestroidea within Calyptratae, and available evidence supports noninclusion in any of the known families, but phylogenetic affinities are otherwise obscure. The species is a coprophage with obligate lecithotrophic unilarviparity, known to breed in cow dung but not known from the dung of any native Australian mammal.

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