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Limnellia

Limnellia is a genus of shore flies in the family Ephydridae.

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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Ephydridae
Subfamily: Ephydrinae
Tribe: Scatellini
Genus: Limnellia
Malloch, 19251
Type species
Limnellia maculipennis
Malloch, 19251
Synonyms

Limnellia is a genus of shore flies in the family Ephydridae.5

Species

  • L. anderssoni Mathis, 19786
  • L. anna Cresson, 19357
  • L. balioptera Mathis, 19786
  • L. fallax (Czerny, 1903) c g
  • L. flavifrontis Costa, Savaris, Marinoni & Mathis, 20168
  • L. flavitarsis Zhang & Yang, 2009 g9
  • L. helmuti Hollmann-Schirrmacher & Zatwarnicki, 199510 c g
  • L. huachuca Mathis, 19786
  • L. itatiaia Mathis, 198011
  • L. lactea Mathis, 19786
  • L. lecocercus Mathis, 19786
  • L. luchunensis Zhang & Yang, 20099
  • L. maculipennis Malloch, 19251
  • L. minima Canzoneri & Meneghini, 196912
  • L. picta Canzoneri & Meneghini, 196912
  • L. quadrata (Fallén, 1813)13
  • L. rainier Mathis and Zack, 1980 i c g
  • L. sejuncta (Loew, 1863) i c g
  • L. stenhammari (Zetterstedt, 1846) i c g
  • L. sticta Mathis, 19786
  • L. surturi Andersson, 197114
  • L. turneri Mathis, 19786
  • L. vounitis Costa, Savaris, Marinoni & Mathis, 20168

Data sources: i = ITIS,15 c = Catalogue of Life,16 g = GBIF,17 b = Bugguide.net18

References

References

  1. Malloch, J.R. (1925). "Notes on Australian Diptera. No. vii". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 50: 311–340.
  2. Collin, J.E. (1930). "Some new species of the dipterous genus Scatella Dsv. and the differentiation of Stictoscatella gen. nov. (Ephydridae)". The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 66: 133‒139.
  3. Cresson, E.T. Jr. (1930). "Studies in the dipterous family Ephydridae. Paper III". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 56: 93‒131. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  4. Duda, Oswald (1940). "Neue oder ungenugend bekannte Zweiflugler der palaarktischen Region aus meiner Sammlung". Folia Zool. Hydrobiol. 10: 214–226.
  5. Mathis, W.N.; Zatwarnicki, T. (1995). "World catalog of shore flies (Diptera: Ephydridae)". Memoirs of Entomology, International. 4: 1–423.
  6. Mathis, Wayne N. (1978). "A revision of the Nearctic species of Limnellia Malloch (Diptera: Ephydridae)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 9 (1): 250–293.
  7. Cresson, E.T. Jr. (1935). "Descriptions of genera and species of the dipterous family Ephydridae". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 61: 345–372. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  8. Costa, Daniel N. R.; Savaris, Marcoandre; Marinoni, Luciane; Mathis, Wayne N. (2016). "Two new, brachypterous Limnellia species from the Venezuelan Andes (Diptera: Ephydridae)". Zootaxa. 4144 (3). Auckland, New Zealand.: Magnolia Press: 301–315. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4144.3.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 27470858. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  9. Zhang, Junhua; Ding, Yang (2009). "Species of the genus Limnellia from China (Diptera: Ephydridae)". Zootaxa. 2308. Auckland, New Zealand.: Magnolia Press: 58–64. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2308.1.4. ISSN 1175-5334.
  10. Hollmann-Schirrmacher, Volker; Zatwarnicki, Tadeusz (1995). "A New Species of Limnellia from the Azores Islands (Diptera: Ephydridae)". Aquatic Insects. 17 (2): 77–82. Bibcode:1995AqIns..17...77H. doi:10.1080/01650429509361575.
  11. Mathis, W.N. (1980). "Studies of Ephydrinae (Diptera: Ephydridae), III: Revision of some Neotropical genera and species" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 303 (303): 1–50 + i–iv. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.303. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  12. Canzoneri, S.; Meneghini, D. (1969). "Sugli Ephydridae e Canaceidae della fauna Etiopica". Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia. 19: 101–185.
  13. Fallen, C.F. (1813). "Beskrifning ofver nagra i Sverige funna vattenflugor (Hydromyzides)". K. Svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. [ser. 3], 1813: 240–257.
  14. Andersson, Hugo (1971). "The European species of Limnellia (Dipt., Ephydridae)". Insect Systematics & Evolution. 2 (1): 53–59. doi:10.1163/187631271x00059.
  15. "Limnellia Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  16. "Browse Limnellia". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  17. "Limnellia". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  18. "Limnellia Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
Further reading

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External links
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