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Calliscia

Calliscia callisceles is a species of fly in the family Sciomyzidae from the Neotropical region, and the only described species in the genus Calliscia.

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Calliscia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Sciomyzidae
Subfamily: Sciomyzinae
Tribe: Sciomyzini
Genus: Calliscia
Steyskal, 19752
Species:
C. callisceles
Binomial name
Calliscia callisceles
(Steyskal, 1963)1
Synonyms
  • Pherbellia callisceles Steyskal, 19631

Calliscia callisceles is a species of fly in the family Sciomyzidae from the Neotropical region, and the only described species in the genus Calliscia.3

References

References

  1. Steyskal, George C. (1963). "Taxonomic notes on Sciomyzidae (Diptera, Acalyptratae)". Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters. 48: 113–125.
  2. Steyskal, G C; Knutson, L V (1975). "Key to the genera of Sciomyzidae (Diptera) from the Americas south of the United States, with descriptions of two new genera". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 77. Washington: Entomological Society of Washington: 274–277. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
  3. Knutson, Lloyd Vernon; Vala, Jean-Claude (2011). Biology of Snail-Killing Sciomyzidae Flies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–526. ISBN 978-0521867856.