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Ectaetia

Ectaetia is a small genus of minute black scavenger flies. Known species are found in the Nearctic, Palearctic, Oriental, and Neotropical biogeographic realms. Adults of Ectaetia species are generally shiny and black, up to 7 mm long.

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Ectaetia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Scatopsidae
Subfamily: Ectaetiinae
Genus: Ectaetia
Species
  • Ectaetia betzi1
  • Ectaetia christii
  • Ectaetia clavipes
  • Ectaetia cornuta
  • Ectaetia gracilis
  • Ectaetia lasiopa
  • Ectaetia nigronitida
  • Ectaetia paradoxa
  • Ectaetia stackelbergi
  • Ectaetia subclavipes
  • Ectaetia sublignicola

Ectaetia is a small genus of minute black scavenger flies (the family Scatopsidae).2 Known species are found in the Nearctic, Palearctic, Oriental, and Neotropical biogeographic realms.3 Adults of Ectaetia species are generally shiny and black, up to 7 mm long.3

References

References

  1. Amorim, Dalton de Souza; Brown, Brian V. (2020-01-01). "Urban Scatopsidae (Diptera) of Los Angeles, California, United States". Insect Systematics and Diversity. 4 (1). doi:10.1093/isd/ixaa001.
  2. "Ectaetia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  3. Brown, Brian Victor (2009). Manual of Central American Diptera. NRC Research Press. p. 354. ISBN 9780660198330.