Emperoptera mirabilis

Taxobox
name = "Emperoptera mirabilis"


status = EX | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Hexapoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota|
ordo = Diptera
subordo = Brachycera
infraordo = Asilomorpha
superfamilia = Empidoidea
familia = Dolichopodidae
subfamilia = Sympycninae
genus = "Emperoptera"
species = "C. mirabilis"
binomial = "Emperoptera mirabilis"
species_authority = Grimshaw, 1902cite book|author=Neal L. Evenhuis|year=1997|title=Review Of Flightless Dolichopodidae (Diptera) In The Hawaiian Islands |pages=29 pp|publisher=Bishop Museum Occasional Papers|language=English]
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"Emperoptera mirabilis" was a species of fly in family Dolichopodidae. It was endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.

It is one of a number of unusual flightless flies native to the islands. It is not known to be arboreal, most specimens have been found in leaf litter.

It is believed that this species, and other species from the same genus, may well be extinct. They were described as being locally abundant when collected in 1907 on Tantalus Peak, but not found in the 1980s. One reason for their demise is believed to be due to introduced predatory ants of the genus "Pheidole", but other factors, including loss of habitat may also be involved.

It was moved to the genus "Campsicnemus" by Grimshaw. Hardy & Kohn in 1964. But Neal Evenhuis in 1997 reinstated it to the genus "Emperoptera"

ource

* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/3719/all "Emperoptera mirabilis"] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 09 August 2007.