Hurleyella

Hurleyella is a genus of small flies in the family Dolichopodidae from the Nearctic and Neotropical realms. They belong to the "micro-dolichopodids", a group of probably unrelated genera from the New World which have a body length of 1 mm or less. The subfamily placement of this genus is currently uncertain, though in some aspects the genus fits into Medeterinae. The genus is named after the late dipterist Richard Hurley.[1]

Hurleyella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: incertae sedis
Genus: Hurleyella
Runyon & Robinson, 2010[1]
Type species
Hurleyella cumberlandensis
Runyon & Robinson, 2010[1]

Species
  • Hurleyella belizensis Runyon, 2019[2]
  • Hurleyella brooksi Runyon & Robinson, 2010[1]
  • Hurleyella cumberlandensis Runyon & Robinson, 2010[1]
  • Hurleyella salina Runyon, 2019[2]

References
  1. Runyon, Justin B; Robinson, Harold (2010). "Hurleyella, a new genus of Nearctic Dolichopodidae (Diptera)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2400: 57–65. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2400.1.6. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  2. Runyon, Justin B. (2019). "Two new species of Hurleyella Runyon & Robinson (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with the first record from the Neotropics". Zootaxa. 4568 (3): 548–560. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4568.3.8.


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