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<emphasis box="[860,1093,869,895]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Cyttaromyia fuscula</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[871,1081,965,990]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Asilopsis fusculus</emphasis>
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(
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<taxonomicName authority="Cockerell, 1921" authorityName="Cockerell" authorityYear="1921" box="[841,1230,1029,1055]" class="Insecta" family="Cylindrotomidae" genus="Asilopsis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="11" pageNumber="12" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fuscula">
<emphasis box="[841,1037,1029,1054]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Asilopsis fuscula</emphasis>
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(
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[840,1085,1072,1097]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Material examined.</emphasis>
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, wing only.
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<paragraph blockId="11.[840,1440,869,1226]" box="[840,1158,1104,1129]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">66572 (NMNH; examined).</paragraph>
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horizon.
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,
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For-
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<paragraph blockId="11.[840,1440,869,1226]" box="[840,927,1168,1193]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">mation.</paragraph>
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locality.
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,
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,
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[840,1018,1248,1273]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Redescription</emphasis>
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This specimen consists of a single wing (Figure 7.1-2). The shape of what can be interpreted as R
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and R
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, the shape and size of the discal cell, the position of what appears to be M
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, and the shape of cell m
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, which narrows toward the wing margin, indicate that this is a representative of
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.
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described
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Cyttaromyia fenestrata</emphasis>
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from White
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, but
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<emphasis box="[1332,1351,1534,1559]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">C</emphasis>
.
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has a shorter and apically much wider discal cell, and a very wide cell m
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compared to
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">C. fuscula</emphasis>
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. The short section between the first forking of vein M and the position where crossvein m-cu touches the discal cell in
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<emphasis box="[1156,1292,1699,1725]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">C. fusculus</emphasis>
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differs from the other known
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<emphasis box="[1041,1183,1731,1757]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Cyttaromyia</emphasis>
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species;
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Cyttaromyia fuscula</emphasis>
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appears to be a distinct species.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[840,953,1812,1837]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Remarks</emphasis>
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Originally assigned to
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by
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Cockerell
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(1921a),
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<emphasis box="[948,1159,1892,1917]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Asilopsis fusculus</emphasis>
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was discussed as possibly a member of Asilinae or
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or its own new subfamily
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.
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discussed the fossil and stated “... the ultimate interpretation of
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<emphasis box="[222,327,262,287]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Asilopsis</emphasis>
Cockerell
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must rest upon the presence or absence of a proboscis and the character of the pretarsus. Without further material and for the reasons given above, I reject a subfamily based upon this fly.” The specimen was subsequently assigned to
<taxonomicName authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1802" box="[226,333,422,447]" class="Insecta" family="Tipulidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Tipulidae</taxonomicName>
by
<bibRefCitation author="Brodo, F." box="[384,547,422,447]" journalOrPublisher="The University of Kansas Science Bulletin" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" pagination="71 - 115" part="47" refId="ref34728" refString="Brodo, F. 1967. A review of the subfamily Cylindrotominae in North America (Diptera, Tipulidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin, 47: 71 - 115." title="A review of the subfamily Cylindrotominae in North America (Diptera, Tipulidae)" type="journal article" year="1967">Brodo (1967)</bibRefCitation>
. Twenty years later,
<bibRefCitation author="Brown, F. M." box="[192,362,454,479]" journalOrPublisher="Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" pagination="232 - 234" part="61" refId="ref35082" refString="Brown, F. M. 1988. The extinct genus Cyttaromyia Scudder in Colorado (Diptera: Tipulidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 61 (2): 232 - 234." title="The extinct genus Cyttaromyia Scudder in Colorado (Diptera: Tipulidae)" type="journal article" year="1988">Brown (1988)</bibRefCitation>
, in a review of fossil
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<emphasis box="[643,785,454,480]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Cyttaromyia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, relied on the input of Curtis Sabrosky and Aubrey Scarbrough who stated “We believe it is a primitive asilid ... and not at all tipuloid.” However, neither Sabrosky nor Scarbrough, who were Brachycera specialists, appear to have been well-acquainted with the diversity of crane flies.
<bibRefCitation author="Brodo, F." box="[585,744,646,671]" journalOrPublisher="The University of Kansas Science Bulletin" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" pagination="71 - 115" part="47" refId="ref34728" refString="Brodo, F. 1967. A review of the subfamily Cylindrotominae in North America (Diptera, Tipulidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin, 47: 71 - 115." title="A review of the subfamily Cylindrotominae in North America (Diptera, Tipulidae)" type="journal article" year="1967">Brodo (1967)</bibRefCitation>
followed the North American concept of “
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” in which
<taxonomicName authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1802" box="[267,374,710,735]" class="Insecta" family="Tipulidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Tipulidae</taxonomicName>
s.l. includes
<taxonomicName authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1802" box="[526,633,710,735]" class="Insecta" family="Tipulidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Tipulidae</taxonomicName>
s.str. (as
<taxonomicName authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1802" class="Insecta" family="Tipulidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Tipulinae">Tipulinae</taxonomicName>
),
<taxonomicName authorityName="Schiner" authorityYear="1863" box="[294,491,742,768]" class="Insecta" family="Cylindrotomidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Cylindrotominae">Cylindrotominae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rondani" authorityYear="1856" box="[508,637,742,767]" class="Insecta" family="Limoniidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Limoniinae">Limoniinae</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName authorityName="Osten-Sacken" authorityYear="1859" class="Insecta" family="Pediciidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Pediciinae">Pediciinae</taxonomicName>
; the rest of the world treats these four taxa as families. We believe that this specimen represents neither
<taxonomicName authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1802" box="[289,396,838,863]" class="Insecta" family="Tipulidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Tipulidae</taxonomicName>
s.str. nor
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rondani" authorityYear="1856" box="[538,671,838,863]" class="Insecta" family="Limoniidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Limoniidae</taxonomicName>
; the only other crane fly possibility other than
<taxonomicName authorityName="Schiner" authorityYear="1863" class="Insecta" family="Cylindrotomidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Cylindrotomidae</taxonomicName>
would be
<taxonomicName authorityName="Osten Sacken" authorityYear="1859" box="[373,496,902,927]" class="Insecta" family="Pediciidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Pediciidae</taxonomicName>
(based on what in that case would be R
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), but then the shape of R
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, R
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and R
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would be very unusual, the discal cell much too large and its shape atypical, and the number of M veins would be 'incorrect' for
<taxonomicName authorityName="Osten Sacken" authorityYear="1859" box="[595,723,1040,1065]" class="Insecta" family="Pediciidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Pediciidae</taxonomicName>
. With the caveat that the specimen is poorly preserved, we propose that wing venation is similar to that of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Schiner" authorityYear="1863" box="[192,389,1135,1161]" class="Insecta" family="Cylindrotomidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Cylindrotomidae</taxonomicName>
:
<taxonomicName authorityName="Scudder" authorityYear="1877" box="[399,541,1135,1161]" class="Insecta" family="Tipulidae" genus="Cyttaromyia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[399,541,1135,1161]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Cyttaromyia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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