Philopotinae

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Helle longirostris.jpg

| image_caption = Helle longirostris

| taxon = Philopotinae

| authority = Schiner, 1867{{cite journal|last=Sabrosky|first=C.W.|year=1999|title=Family-Group Names in Diptera|url=http://www.online-keys.net/sciaroidea/add01/Thompson_et_al_1999_family_group_names.pdf|journal=Myia|volume=10|pages=1–360}} (page 242)

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision = See text

}}

Philopotinae is a subfamily of small-headed flies. They have an arched body shape, as well as enlarged postpronotal lobes that form a collar behind the head. Their larvae are endoparasites of araneomorph spiders in the subgroup Entelegynae.{{cite journal|last1=Gillung|first1=Jessica P.|last2=Winterton|first2=Shawn L.|year=2019|title=Evolution of fossil and living spider flies based on morphological and molecular data (Diptera, Acroceridae)|journal=Systematic Entomology|volume=44|issue=4|pages=820–841|doi=10.1111/syen.12358|doi-access=free|bibcode=2019SysEn..44..820G }}

Genera

The subfamily includes twelve extant genera and four extinct:

Africaterphis Schlinger, 1968
†Archaeterphis Hauser & Winterton, 2007{{cite journal|first1=Martin|last1=Hauser|first2=Shaun L.|last2=Winterton|year=2007|title=A New Fossil Genus of Small-Headed Flies (Diptera: Acroceridae: Philopotinae) from Baltic Amber|journal=Annals of the Entomological Society of America|volume=100|issue=2|pages=152–156|doi=10.1603/0013-8746(2007)100[152:ANFGOS]2.0.CO;2}}
†Burmophilopota Feng et al., 2024{{Cite journal|last1=Feng |first1=Q. |last2=Zhuang |first2=J. |last3=Shih |first3=C. |last4=Ren |first4=D. |last5=Wang |first5=Y. |year=2024 |title=The oldest fossil record of Philopotinae (Diptera: Acroceridae) from the mid-Cretaceous amber of Northern Myanmar |journal=Zootaxa |volume=5497 |issue=3 |pages=435–443 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.5497.3.8 |pmid=39647140 }}
Dimacrocolus Schlinger, 1961
†Eulonchiella Meunier, 1912
Helle Osten Sacken, 1896{{cite journal|last=Osten Sacken|first=C.R.|year=1896|title=A new genus of Cyrtidae (Dipt.) from New Zealand|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9262179|journal=Entomologist's Monthly Magazine|volume=32|pages=16–18}}
†Hoffeinsomyia Gillung & Winterton, 2017{{cite journal|first1=Jessica P.|last1=Gillung|first2=Shaun L.|last2=Winterton|year=2017|title=A review of fossil spider flies (Diptera: Acroceridae) with descriptions of new genera and species from Baltic Amber|journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology|volume=16|issue=4|pages=325–350|doi=10.1080/14772019.2017.1289566|s2cid=90493326}}
Megalybus Philippi, 1865
Neophilopota Schlinger in Schlinger, Gillung & Borkent, 2013{{cite journal | last1 = Schlinger | first1 = Evert I. | last2 = Gillung | first2 = Jessica P. | last3 = Borkent | first3 = Christopher J. | year = 2013 | title = New spider flies from the Neotropical Region (Diptera, Acroceridae) with a key to New World genera | journal = ZooKeys | issue = 270 | pages = 59–93 | doi = 10.3897/zookeys.270.4476 | pmid=23730188 | pmc=3668421| doi-access = free | bibcode = 2013ZooK..270...59S }}
Oligoneura Bigot, 1878
Parahelle Schlinger, 1961
Philopota Wiedemann, 1830
†Prophilopota Hennig, 1966
Quasi Gillung & Winterton, 2011{{cite journal|first1=Jéssica P.|last1=Gillung|first2=Shaun L.|last2=Winterton|year=2011|title=New genera of philopotine spider flies (Diptera, Acroceridae) with a key to living and fossil genera|url=https://archive.org/details/pubmed-PMC3175128|journal=ZooKeys|issue=127|pages=15–27|doi=10.3897/zookeys.127.1824|pmc=3175128|pmid=21998545|doi-access=free|bibcode=2011ZooK..127...15G }}
Schlingeriella Gillung & Winterton, 2011
Terphis Erichson, 1840
Thyllis Erichson, 1840

References

External links

[http://eol.org/pages/2698660/overview/ Encyclopedia of Life entry]

Category:Brachycera subfamilies

Category:Acroceridae

Category:Taxa named by Ignaz Rudolph Schiner