Tetrachaetus
| Tetrachaetus | |
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| Tetrachaetus bipunctatus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Dolichopodidae |
| Subfamily: | Sympycninae |
| Genus: | Tetrachaetus Bickel & Dyte, 1989[2] |
| Species: | T. bipunctatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Tetrachaetus bipunctatus | |
| Synonyms | |
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Tetrachaetus is a monospecific genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, found in New Zealand, containing only the species Tetrachaetus bipunctatus. The genus was originally named by Octave Parent in 1933 and originally included two species. However, as the genus was not designated a type species, this name was unavailable until 1989, when Daniel J. Bickel and C. E. Dyte designated Tetrachaetus bipunctatus as the type species.[2]
The two species that were part of this genus, T. bipunctus and T. simplex, were found to be conspecific and were synonymised under Tetrachaetus bipunctatus Parent (1933) in 2025.[3]
References
- ^ a b c Parent, O. (1933). "Étude monographique sur les Diptères Dolichopodides de Nouvelle Zélande". Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles. Série B. Sciences Physiques et Naturelles. 53: 325–441.
- ^ a b Bickel, D. J.; Dyte, C. E. (1989). "Family Dolichopodidae" (PDF). Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions: 393–418. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
- ^ Kerr, D. Steven; Gillum, Joanne E.; Fleury, Kane (25 Dec 2025). "The New Zealand genus Tetrachaetus (Diptera: Dolichopodidae): synonymisation of Tetrachaetus bipunctatus and T. simplex". New Zealand Entomologist. 49 (1): 40–49. doi:10.1080/00779962.2025.2597528.