ICD7 7th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF DIPTEROLOGY ABSTRACTS VOLUME 8-13 August 2010, San José, Costa Rica Ramada-Herradura International Conference Center SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF DIPTEROLOGY 8-13 August 2010 San José, Costa Rica Organizing Committee Manuel A. Zumbado (Chairman) Adrian C. Pont (CICD representative) Dalton de Souza Amorim Christopher J. Borkent Stephen D. Gaimari María Angeles Marcos-García Bradley Sinclair Jeffrey H. Skevington Brian M. Wiegmann Logistics Coordinator Mrs. Hazel Ramírez ICD7 Logo illustration: Ricardo Vargas Graphic Design Rodrigo Granados Made in Costa Rica by 7th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF DIPTEROLOGY – ABSTRACTS VOLUME 8-13 August 2010, San José, Costa Rica Ramada-Herradura International Conference Center Contents 2 Contents Preface .............................................................................................................................................. 13 ABSTRACTS .................................................................................................................................... 15 Phylogenetic relationships within the Mydinae (Diptera: Mydidae) ........................................... 17 The genus Dorylomorpha Aczél (Diptera: Pipunculidae) in South America .............................. 18 Hypopygial characters and phylogenetic relationships between species of Coniceromyia (Diptera: Phoridae) ..................................................... 19 A large scale survey of the Diptera of the Atlantic Forest ........................................................... 20 Fossils, biogeography and evolution of flies ............................................................................... 22 Arthropods associated with a human corpse found in a natural forest area of Valinhos Municipality, Sâo Paulo State, Southern Brazil ............................................ 24 The identity of three Neotropical genera of Sarcophaginae (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) ............... 25 Increased sampling of taxa, genes, and morphological data leads to the dissolution of Diachlorini (Tabanidae: Tabaninae).................................................. 26 A phylogenetic study of the relationships of the genera of Xylophagidae .................................. 27 Dispersal and behaviour of Myzus persicae (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in the presence of Sphaerophoria rueppellii (Diptera: Syrphidae): consequences for transmission of Broad bean wilt virus 1 in pepper .............................. 28 Diptera.info, the dipterist’ site ..................................................................................................... 29 A collective empidoid worker site? ............................................................................................. 30 The subfamily Medeterinae (Dolichopodidae): an overview of genera and characters .............. 31 The Baltic amber Dolichopodidae (Diptera): an abundant and diverse fauna ............................. 32 Internet or paper: a possible solution ........................................................................................... 33 Large-scale collection imaging .................................................................................................... 34 Chironomidae are the sister group of all remaining Culicomorpha (Diptera) ............................. 35 Systematics of Leptomorphus (Mycetophilidae) ........................................................................ 36 CDM portals and taxonomic editor – the Milichiidae portal ....................................................... 37 Scratchpads – A social networking tool to build, share and publish taxonomic information ...... 38 The effect of Ivermectin on the developmental rate of Chrysomya putoria (Diptera: Calliphoridae) .................................................................... 39 Species-specific behavioral differences in male tsetse fly genitalia revealed by X-ray videos .. 40 What’s new in New World Parathalassiinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) ..................................... 41 Monophyletic groups in the Phoridae, and the evolution of termitophily ................................... 42 Phylogeny of the genus Peckia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) ......................... 43 Revision of the genus Lyroneurus and comments on the Diaphorinae phylogeny (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) .................................................... 44 7th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF DIPTEROLOGY – ABSTRACTS VOLUME 8-13 August 2010, San José, Costa Rica Ramada-Herradura International Conference Center 3 Contents Altitudinal patterns in horse fly activity in a tropical cloud forest .............................................. 45 Advances in Neotropical dipterology: rediscovering the New World Diptera and dipterist diversity in South America ........................................... 46 Over 200 genera and counting – the megadiverse fauna of Afrotropical Tachinidae .................. 47 MOSCHWEB - An open access interactive key to the Palaearctic genera of Diptera: Tachinidae ......................................................................... 48 Cladistic analysis of Oidardis (Asilidae: Laphriinae) ................................................................. 49 Biodiversity of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in relation to its larval habitats in México and Central America ............................................................ 50 Molecular tests of a chomosome based speciation model in black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae)... 51 New species of Psychoda Latreille (Psychodidae) from Brazil .................................................. 52 A once-unique character of Psychoda Latreille found in Philosepedon Eaton (Psychodidae, Psychodinae) ............................................................ 53 Attributing sex to species with mtND4 in two species of Psychoda Latreille (Psychodidae) ... 54 Occurrence of Calliphoridae (Diptera: Insecta) throughout the process of decomposition of a swine corpse (Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758) exposed in an Atlantic Forest fragment at Salvador, Bahia City, Brazil. ........................................ 55 Brazilian Dipterology: History and research ............................................................................... 56 Stability in a phylogenetic morass: monophyly and interfamilial relationships of the Culicomorpha ................................................................ 57 Twigs around the trunk: Phylogenetic relationships of Neotropical Blephariceridae ................. 58 Up-date on revision of New Zealand Austrosimulium (Simuliidae) .......................................... 59 A tritrophic geographic mosaic of coevolution and local adaptation .......................................... 60 What advances have been made in the last decade in Afrotropical Dipterology? ....................... 61 A molecular phylogeny for the Chironomidae ............................................................................ 62 Revision of the Hesperempis genus group (Diptera: Empididae) ............................................... 63 Cladistic Analysis of Toxophorini Schiner (Diptera, Bombyliidae) ............................................ 64 Origin and evolution of the Disneyempis lineage, a phylogenetic and biogeographic approach .................................................................... 65 An exemplar approach of the morphological phylogeny of the subfamily Empidinae ............... 66 LifeDesk: managing and sharing biodiversity research on the Web ............................................ 67 An overview of Afrotropical Mydidae – the most diverse mydid fauna worldwide ................... 68 Phylogenetic relationships within Mydidae based on adult morphology (Diptera: Asiloidea) ... 69 The Encyclopedia of Life, the Biodiversity Heritage Library, and Systematic Dipterology ....... 70 Afrotropical Flower Flies (Diptera: Syrphidae)........................................................................... 71 Malaise traps in biodiversity assessments - II. Evaluating changes in community structure ...... 72 Two hundred described, thousands more to go – the virtually unstudied fauna of Afrotropical Cecidomyiidae .......................................................................................... 73 7th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF DIPTEROLOGY – ABSTRACTS VOLUME 8-13 August 2010, San José, Costa Rica Ramada-Herradura International Conference Center Contents 4 Radiation of gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) driven by shifts within and between host-plant species of North American goldenrods ................... 74 Contact courtship devices and sexual selection in Diptera .......................................................... 75 DNA barcoding of non-biting midges (Diptera: Chironomidae) ................................................. 76 Towards a molecular phylogeny of the tribe Tanytarsini (Diptera: Chironomidae): new genera emerge while others disappear ............................. 77 The Fiji Terrestrial Arthropod Survey – Overview and results of a three-year study .................. 78 A new Neotropical ditomyiid genus, with a fossil from Dominican Republic amber and new species .................................................................... 79 Costa Rican Biodiversity - new species of Downeshelea (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) .............. 80 A new species of gall midge (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae, Lasiopteridi) from Brazil ..................... 81 Overview of the Neotropical Dexiinae (Tachinidae) ..................................................................