Ahercostomus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.[2] It currently contains only one species, Ahercostomus jiangchenganus, known only from China.[1] Ahercostomus was originally created as a subgenus of Hercostomus; it was later promoted to genus rank by Zhang & Yang (2005).[3] Alternatively, Brook (2005) provisionally regards Ahercostomus as a synonym of Hercostomus.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Dolichopodidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichopodinae |
| Genus: | Ahercostomus Yang & Saigusa, 2001[1] |
| Species: | A. jiangchenganus
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| Binomial name | |
| Ahercostomus jiangchenganus (Yang & Saigusa, 2001)[1]
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| Synonyms | |
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Hercostomus (Ahercostomus) jiangchenganus Yang & Saigusa, 2001 | |
The specific name refers to the type locality, Jiangcheng, which is located in the Yunnan province of China.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d Yang, D.; Saigusa, T. (2001). "New and little known species of Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from China (XI)" (PDF). Bull. Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg. Entomol. 71: 237–256.
- ^ Yang, D.; Zhu, Y.; Wang, M.; Zhang, L. (2006). World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera). Beijing: China Agricultural University Press. pp. 1–704. ISBN 9787811171020.
- ^ Zhang, L.-L; Yang, D. (2005). "A study on the phylogeny of Dolichopodinae from the Palaearctic and Oriental realms, with descriptions of three new genera (Diptera, Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Acta Zootaxomica Sinica. 30: 180–190.
- ^ Brooks, Scott E. (2005). "Systematics and phylogeny of Dolichopodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". Zootaxa. 857: 1–158. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.857.1.1.
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