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Parhadrestiinae

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Containing group: Stratiomyidae

Introduction

Soldier flies in the subfamily Parhadrestiinae are very rare and found only in Chile. Parhadresia curico has been collected in Nothofagus forests (Woodley 2001). Cretaceogaster was described from Cretaceous aged Canadian amber (Teskey 1971).

Characteristics

Parhadrestiinae is distinguished by the fusion of antennal flagellomeres to 1 or 2 segments (Woodley 2001). It is the only subfamily in which the male hypandrium is not fused to the gonocoxites, the fused parameres of the phallic complex are not reduced in size, the male eighth abdominal sternite is not strongly reduced, veins R4 and R5 are nearly parallel beyond their fork, and the apical section of vein CuA2 is straight (Woodley 2001).

Relationship of Parhadrestiinae to Other Stratiomyidae

Woodley (1986, 2001) convincingly demonstrates that Parhadrestiinae is the sister group to all other Stratiomyidae. The morphological evidence for this relationship is strong. This result is corroborated by Brammer and von Dohlen's (2007) phylogenetic analysis of the soldier flies.

References

Brammer, C.A. and C.D. von Dohlen. 2007. The evolutionary history of Stratiomyidae (Insecta: Diptera): the molecular phylogeny of a diverse family of flies. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 43:660-73.

Teskey, H.J. 1971. A new soldier fly from Canadian amber (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). Can. Entomol. 103: 1659-1661

Woodley, N.E. 1986. Parhadrestiinae, a new subfamily for Parhadrestia James and Cretaceogaster Teskey (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). Syst. Entomol. 11: 377-387

Woodley, N. E. 2001. A World Catalog of the Stratiomyidae (Insecta: Diptera). Myia 11: 1-473. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden.

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