''Calohilara'' is a genus of

flies Flies are insects of the Order (biology), order Diptera, the name being derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwin ...

in the family

Empididae __NOTOC__ Empididae is a family of flies with over 3,000 described species occurring worldwide in all the biogeographic realms but the majority are found in the Holarctic. They are mainly predatory flies like most of their relatives in the Empid ...

. It was originally considered a subgenus of ''

Hilaria The Hilaria (; Latin "the cheerful ones", a term derived from the borrowed adjective "cheerful, merry") were ancient Roman religious festivals celebrated on the March equinox to honor Cybele. Origins The term seems originally to have been ...

'', but raised to genus status due to morphological features such as "male eyes narrowly separated on the face with the enlarged anterior ommatidia, male and female wings with distinct dark markings and veins R2+3 strongly bent. The

mitochondrial DNA Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA and mDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondrion, mitochondria organelles in a eukaryotic cell that converts chemical energy from food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Mitochondrial DNA is a small portion of the D ...

of ''Calohilara tibetensis'' was sequenced in 2021. It consists of 15,354 base pairs, divided between 13

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, two ribosomal RNAs, and 22 transfer RNAs. It is similar to other mitochondrial DNA of the family

, and the nucleotide composition also strongly uses

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and

thymine Thymine () (symbol T or Thy) is one of the four nucleotide bases in the nucleic acid of DNA that are represented by the letters G–C–A–T. The others are adenine, guanine, and cytosine. Thymine is also known as 5-methyluracil, a pyrimidine ...

(which together make up 77.4% of the total).

Species

*'' Calohilara elegans'' (

Frey Freyr (Old Norse: 'Lord'), sometimes anglicized as Frey, is a widely attested god in Norse mythology, associated with kingship, fertility, peace, prosperity, fair weather, and good harvest. Freyr, sometimes referred to as Yngvi-Freyr, was especi ...

, 1952) *''

Calohilara kambaitiensis ''Calohilara'' is a genus of Fly, flies in the family Empididae. It was originally considered a subgenus of ''Hilaria'', but raised to genus status due to morphological features such as "male eyes narrowly separated on the face with the enlarged ...

'' (

, 1952) *'' Calohilara pulchella'' (

, 1952) *'' Calohilara tibetensis'' Ding, He, Lin & Yang, 2020, discovered in

Mêdog County Mêdog (; zh, s=墨脱县), formerly known as Pemako ( "Lotus Array"), is a county of Nyingchi in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Pemako is considered famous because it is the Nyingma master Dudjom Rinpoche's birthplace, and it is a proph ...

, Tibet

References

Empididae Brachycera genera Taxa named by Richard Karl Hjalmar Frey Diptera of Asia {{Empididae-stub