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Thecomyia

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

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Thecomyia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Sciomyzidae
Subfamily: Sciomyzinae
Tribe: Tetanocerini
Genus: Thecomyia
Perty, 18331
Type species
Thecomyia longicornis
Perty, 18331

Thecomyia is a Neotropical genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.23

Species

  • T. abercrombiei Marinoni & Steyskal, 20034
  • T. autazensis Marinoni & Steyskal, 20034
  • T. bonattoi Marinoni & Steyskal, 20034
  • T. chrysacra Marinoni & Steyskal, 20034
  • T. diederiki Mortelmans, 20185
  • T. lateralis (Walker, 1858)6
  • T. limbata (Wiedemann, 1819)
  • T. longicornis Perty, 18331
  • T. mathisi Marinoni & Steyskal, 20034
  • T. naponica Marinoni & Steyskal, 20034
  • T. papaveroi Marinoni & Steyskal, 20034
  • T. signorelli Marinoni & Steyskal, 20034
  • T. tricuneata Marinoni & Steyskal, 20034
References

References

  1. Perty, M. (1833). Delectus animalium articulatorum quae in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I. Bavariae regis augustissimi peracto collegerunt Dr. J.B. de Sphix et Dr. C.F. Ph. De Martius. Munich. pp. 189, pl. 37.
  2. Knutson, Lloyd Vernon; Vala, Jean-Claude (2011). Biology of Snail-Killing Sciomyzidae Flies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–526. ISBN 978-0521867856.
  3. Abercrombie, J.; Berg, C. O. (1975). "Natural history of Thecomyia limbata (Diptera: Sciomyzidae) from Brazil". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 77 (3): 355–368.
  4. Marinoni, Luciane; Steyskal, George C.; Knutson, Lloyd (2003). "Revision and cladistic analysis of the Neotropical Genus Thecomyia Perty (Diptera: Sciomyzidae)". Zootaxa. 191 (1). Auckland, New Zealand: Magnolia Press: 1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.191.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.
  5. Mortelmans, J.; Pollet, M. (2018). "New data and species of Thecomyia Perty, 1833 (Diptera: Sciomyzidae) from Mitaraka (French Guiana), with notes on the genus, in Touroult J., "Our Planet Reviewed" 2015 large-scale biotic survey in Mitaraka, French Guiana". Zoosystema. 40 (17): 415–423. doi:10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a17. S2CID 92668763. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
  6. Walker, Francis (1858). "Characters of undescribed Diptera in the collection of W. W. Saunders, Esq., F. R. S., &c". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 4: 119–153.