Achalcinae is a subfamily of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.[2][3][4] It is an ancestral group close to Medeterinae and Sciapodinae.[1]

Achalcinae
Apterachalcus borboroides male
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Achalcinae
Grootaert & Meuffels, 1997[1]
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References

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  1. ^ a b c Grootaert, P.; Meuffels, H.J.G. (1997). "Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from Papua New Guinea. XV. Scepastopyga gen. nov. and the establishment of a new subfamily, the Achalcinae". Journal of Natural History. 31 (10): 1587–1600. doi:10.1080/00222939700770841.
  2. ^ Grichanov, Igor Ya. (2017). "Alphabetic list of generic and specific names of predatory flies of the epifamily Dolichopodoidae (Diptera). 2nd ed" (PDF). Plant Protection News, Supplements (23). St.Petersburg: All-Union Research Institute of Plant Protection (VISR). doi:10.5281/zenodo.884863.
  3. ^ D'Assis Fonseca, E.C.M. (1978). Dolichopodidae (Diptera, Orthorrhapha, Brachycera) (Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects 9/5) (PDF). London: Royal Entomological Society of London. pp. 1–90. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 April 2021. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Bickel, D. J. (1991). "Sciapodinae, Medeterinae (Insecta: Diptera) with a generic review of the Dolichopodidae" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 23 (published 13 Jan 1992): 1–74. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  6. ^ Pollet, M. (2005). "Systematic revision of Neotropical Achalcus and a related new genus (Diptera: Dolichopodidae, Achalcinae) with comments on their phylogeny, ecology and zoogeography". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 143 (1): 27–73. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00141.x.
  7. ^ Aldrich, J. M. (1902). "Dolichopodidae of Grenada, W. I." Kansas University Science Bulletin. 1 (3): 75–94, pl. 4.
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