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The Tachiniscinae are a subfamily of the fruit fly family Tephritidae. They are treated by some authorities as a separate family, Tachiniscidae. An undetermined species of the genus ''Tachiniscidia'' has been reared from Saturniidae caterpillars in Nigeria. The family Tachiniscidae was established by Kertész for a single species, ''Tachinisca cyaneiventris'' Kertész, 1903 from Peru and Bolivia. Kertész correctly placed that family in the “Muscidae acalyptratae”, in spite of its tachinid-like appearance. In the same year, Bischof described another genus, ''Bibundia'', with a single species, ''B. hermanni'' Bischof (from Central Africa), which he assigned to “Ortalidae”. Malloch described one more monotypic tachiniscid genus, ''Tachiniscidia'', with the type species ''T. africana'' Malloch from “Chirinda Forest, S. Rhodesia” (Zimbabwe). The only host data recorded for these three genera, or any other Tachiniscinae, is the mention of “''Anthophasia robertsi'' Cogan” (nomen nudum; listed by Cogan as an undescribed species of ''Bibundia'') reared from pupae of ''Bunaea alcinoe'' Stoll and ''Imbrasia obscura'' Butler (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) by Roberts (1969). The exact identity of the host species needs further investigation, as Cogan (1980: 555) stated that “A single specimen of a Bibundia species has been reared by Roberts (1969) from a caterpillar of a saturniid moth, ''Imbrasia nictitans'' Fabricius” (=''Imbrasia epimethea'' Drury). The genera and species currently placed in the tribe Ortalotrypetini were originally assigned to the family Tephritidae, and generally fit its diagnosis well. Hendel (1927) established the genus ''Ortalotrypeta'' with two species from China (Sichuan), ''O. gigas'' Hendel and ''O. idana'' Hendel, which he considered related to ''Acanthonevra'' Macquart and allied genera of fruit flies. Later, eight additional species from southeastern China and northern Vietnam. The genus ''Cyaphorma'' Wang 1989, very close to ''Ortalotrypeta'', was described from China (Wang, 1989). Ito (1983) established the tribe Ortalotrypetini in his key to genera of Japanese Tephritidae. He included the single genus ''Ortalotrypeta'' to separate it from genera of the tribe Acanthonevrini. The tribe was preliminarily revised by Norrbom. McAlpine (1989) presumed that the Tachiniscidae could be a sister-group of Pyrgotidae based only on their parasitic larval habits. Korneyev hypothesized that the highly specialized structure of female ovipositor as a synapomorphy of Ortalotrypetini and Tachiniscidae and joined them as a subfamily Tachiniscinae in the family Tephritidae, as the sister group to other tephritid taxa. Korneyev & Norrbom summarized all the taxonomy data on the genera of the tribe. And later, Han & Ro provided the results of phylogeny reconstruction of the family Tephritidae (Diptera) from 12S, 16S, and COII mitochondrial gene fragments, which strongly supported the hypothesis of Tachiniscinae monophyly and sister-group relationships to the remaining group of Tephritidae than to Pyrgotidae. ==Classification== * Tribe Ortalotrypetini: : * ''Cyaforma'' : * ''Ischyropteron'' : * ''Neortalotrypeta'' : * ''Ortalotrypeta'' : * ''Protortalotrypeta'' * Tribe Tachiniscini: : * ''Bibundia'' : * ''Tachinisca'' : * ''Tachiniscidia'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tachiniscinae」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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