Hilarimorphidae

Taxobox
name = Hilarimorphidae
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Hexapoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota|
ordo = Diptera
subordo = Brachycera
infraordo = Asilomorpha
superfamilia = Asiloidea
familia = Hilarimorphidae
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = *"Hilarimorpha"
*"Hilarimorphites"

Hilarimorphidae or Hilarimorphid flies are a Family of Diptera. The are placed in the Super family Asiloidea, thought their is some considerable doubt, but the consensus is by many workers is workers are that they are most closely related to the Bombyliidae. Most species are nearctic. [cite journal
author=NAGATOMI Akira
year=1982
month=
title=Genitalia of Hilarimorpha (Diptera, Hilarimorphidae)
journal=Japanese journal of entomology
volume=50
issue=4
pages=544-548
publisher=
location=Kagoshima
issn=09155805
language=japanese]

[cite journal
author=Webb, D. W.
year=1974
month=
title=A revision of the genus Hilarimorpha (Diptera: Hilarimorphidae)
journal=Journal Kansas Entomology Society
volume=47
issue=
pages=172-222
publisher=Kansas Entomology Society
location=
language=English]

pecies

*Genus "Hilarimorpha":*"H. abuta" Webb, 1974 :*"H. bumulla" Webb, 1974 :*"H. californica" Webb, 1974 :*"H. clavata" Webb, 1974 :*"H. cunata" Webb, 1974 :*"H. desta" Webb, 1974 :*"H. ditissa" Webb, 1975 :*"H. kena" Webb, 1974 :*"H. lamara" Webb, 1974 :*"H. lantha" Webb, 1974 :*"H. loisae" Webb, 1974 :*"H. mandana" Webb, 1974 :*"H. mentata" Webb, 1974 :*"H. mikii" Williston, 1888 :*"H. modesta" Webb, 1974 :*"H. obscura" Bigot, 1887 :*"H. parva" Webb, 1974:*"H. pitans" Webb, 1974:*"H. punata" Webb, 1974:*"H. pusilla" Johnson, 1923:*"H. reparta" Webb, 1974:*"H. rivara" Webb, 1975:*"H. robertsoni" Webb, 1974:*"H. sidora" Webb, 1974:*"H. singularis" Webb, 1974:*"H. stena" Webb, 1974:*"H. tempa" Webb, 1974

*Genus "Hilarimorphites" Grimaldi & Cumming, 1999 - Extinct, known from New Jersey Cretaceous amber. [cite journal
author=Grimaldi, D.I. & Cumming, J.M.
year=1999
month=
title=Brachyceran Diptera in Cretaceous ambers and Mesozoic diversification of the Eremoneura
journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
volume=
issue=239
pages=1-124 pp
publisher=American Museum of Natural History
location=
url= http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/1583/1/B239-0002.pdf
language=English] :*"H. longimedia" Grimaldi & Cumming, 1999:*"H. setosa" Grimaldi & Cumming, 1999:*"H. superba" Grimaldi & Cumming, 1999:*"H. yeatesi" Grimaldi & Cumming, 1999

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