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Anticheta

Anticheta is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.

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Anticheta
Anticheta atriseta
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Sciomyzidae
Subfamily: Sciomyzinae
Tribe: Tetanocerini
Genus: Anticheta
Rondani, 18561
Type species
Tetanocera vittata
Haliday, 1839

Anticheta is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.2

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References

  1. Rozkošný, R. (1984). The Sciomyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica. Vol. 14. E.J. Brill/Scandinavian Science Press. pp. 224 pp. ISBN 90-04-07592-5.
  2. Knutson, Lloyd Vernon; Vala, Jean-Claude (2011). Biology of Snail-Killing Sciomyzidae Flies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–526. ISBN 978-0521867856.