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Dorycera

Dorycera is a genus of picture-winged flies in the family Ulidiidae.

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Dorycera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Ulidiidae
Subfamily: Otitinae
Tribe: Otitini
Genus: Dorycera
Meigen, 1830
Synonyms1
  • Driope Swinderen, 1822
    (nomen oblitum)
  • Macheirocera Rondani, 1869
  • Percnomatia Loew, 1868

Dorycera is a genus of picture-winged flies in the family Ulidiidae.2

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References

  1. Evenhuis, Neal L. (2020). "The hazards of Nomenclatural Archaeology? The Diptera names of Theodorus van Swinderen in his 1822 Index Rerum Naturalium quae conservantur in Museo Academico Groningano". Zootaxa. 4859 (3): 383–396. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4859.3.4. PMID 33056189. S2CID 222821852.
  2. "Fauna Europaea project". Archived from the original on February 2, 2014. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
  3. Chandler, Peter J. (1998). Checklists of Insects of the British Isles (New Series) Part 1: Diptera. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. Vol. 12. London: Royal Entomological Society of London. p. 122. ISBN 0-901546-82-8.