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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.