Growing the Rhinophorid Tree: Three New Species and Their Phylogenetic Implications (Diptera: Rhinophoridae)

Silvia Gisondi; Thomas Pape; Hiroshi Shima; Pierfilippo Cerretti

doi:10.3390/insects11110792

Growing the Rhinophorid Tree: Three New Species and Their Phylogenetic Implications (Diptera: Rhinophoridae)

Insects. 2020 Nov 12;11(11):792. doi: 10.3390/insects11110792.

Authors

Silvia Gisondi^{1

2}, Thomas Pape², Hiroshi Shima³, Pierfilippo Cerretti¹

Affiliations

¹ Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie "Charles Darwin", Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy.
² Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
³ Kyushu University Museum, Kyushu University, Hakozaki, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan.

Abstract

Three new species of Rhinophoridae (Aporeomyia elaphocerasp. nov., Baniassa pennatasp. nov. from the Oriental Region, and Phyto mambillasp. nov. from the Afrotropical Region) are described, illustrated and compared with congeners. Genus-level affiliation of the new species is based on a morphology-based phylogeny, preliminarily accepting a paraphyletic Phyto Robineau-Desvoidy awaiting incorporation of molecular data. Keys to the species of the genus Aporeomyia Pape & Shima as well as to the Afrotropical species of the genus Phyto Robineau-Desvoidy are given.

Keywords: Afrotropical Region; Malaysia; Nigeria; Oriental Region; Vietnam; new species; phylogeny; taxonomy.