TY - JOUR T1 - The Mesozoic family Archizelmiridae (Diptera: Insecta) JF - Journal of Paleontology Y1 - 2003 A1 - Grimaldi, David A1 - Amorim, Dalton de Sousa A1 - Vladimir A. Blagoderov SP - 368 EP - 381 KW - Archimelzira ( Nematocera ) : Gen nov KW - Archimelzira americana ( Nematocera ) : Sp nov KW - Archizelmira Rohdendorf 1962 KW - CRETACEOUS KW - Described from amber KW - New Jersey KW - Of family Archizelmiridae KW - p. 373 KW - Type species Archimelzira americana AB - A nematocerous fly family known previously only from one species and specimen from the Upper Jurassic of Karatau, Kazakhstan, Archizelmiridae is expanded here to include additional records preserved as compression fossils and ones in amber. The compressions are from the Upper Jurassic of Shar-Teg, Mongolia and Lower Cretaceous of Baissa, Transbaikal, with a new species, Archizelmira baissa, from Baissa. Particularly significant are three finely preserved new species and genera in ambers from the Cretaceous Period: Zelmiarcha lebanensis (Lebanon: Lower Aptian), Archimelzira americana (New Jersey: Turonian), and Burmazelmira aristica (Burma [Myanmar]: mid-Cretaceous). The latter two species interestingly possess stylate antennae, those of Burmazelmira being the only aristate antennae in the order Diptera outside the suborder Brachycera. A cladogram is presented for the relationships among archizelmirid species, cladistic rank of which correlates with stratigraphic age. Transformation series of the antennal flagellum in Archizelmiridae corresponds with one recently hypothesized for the Brachycera, wherein the style and arista are derived from the apical flagellomere(s). The family appears to be a member of the extant group Sciaroidea, which includes fungus gnats and gall midges, though precise relationships remain unclear. L2 - 23896 L3 - 26501 VL - 77 UR - http://www.online-keys.net/sciaroidea/2000_/Grimaldi_et_al_2003_Archizelmiridae.pdf N1 - Using Smart Source ParsingMarch ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The genus Sciarotricha gen. n. (Sciaridae) and the phylogeny of Recent and fossil Sciaroidea (Diptera) JF - Insect Systematics and Evolution Y1 - 2005 A1 - Hippa, Heikki A1 - Vilkamaa, Pekka SP - 121 EP - 143 KW - Cladistics- KW - Insecta- KW - New-species; Nematocera- : Diptera- KW - Recent-and-fossil-taxa KW - Sciaroidea- ( Nematocera- ) : Phylogeny- KW - systematic-implications; Sciarotricha-biloba ( Sciaridae- ) : Namibia- AB - The phylogeny of the main groups of the Sciaroidea, including the fossil Antefungivoridae[dagger], Archizelmiridae[dagger], Mesosciophilidae[dagger], Pleciofungivoridae, Pleciomimidae[dagger], Protopleciidae[dagger] and Bolitophilidae: Mangasinae[dagger], and an extant new taxon, was studied by parsimony analysis. Two cladistic analyses of seventy-eight morphological characters from adults were made. One analysis, with forty-one extant taxa in the ingroup and the other, with the addition of twelve fossil taxa, both produced two most parsimonious cladograms. The phylogenetic hypotheses obtained differed from each other, and in part also to a great extent from previous ones although most of the traditionally recognized groups appeared monophyletic, including the speciose Cecidomyiidae and Sciaridae. The Cecidomyiidae (fossil analysis) or the Keroplatidae-Ditomyiidae (extant analysis) appeared as the sister-group of the rest of the Sciaroidea. Following on from these analyses, we propose emending the current Sciaridae to include the following subfamilies: Archizelmirinae[dagger] stat. n., Rangomarammae stat. n., Sciarinae, Sciarosominae subfam. n. and Sciarotrichinae subfam. n. A new taxon from Namibia, Sciarotricha biloba gen. n., sp. n. is described, and, according to the phylogenetic analysis, is placed in the Sciaridae (Sciarotrichinae). The sister-group of the Sciaridae as newly defined is the Mycetophilidae group, in the extant analysis including the Mycetophilidae, Manotidae, Lygistorrhinidae, Pterogymnus and Sciaropota, and in the fossil analysis even including the Mesosciophilidae[dagger] and the Ohakunea group (Ohakunea+ Colononlyia). L2 - 22172 L3 - 22189 VL - 36 UR - http://www.online-keys.net/sciaroidea/2000_/Hippa_&_Wilkimae_2005_sciarotricha_phylogeny_Sciaroidea.pdf N1 - Article; PrintEnglish ER -