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Colobaea

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

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Colobaea
Colobaea punctata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Sciomyzidae
Subfamily: Sciomyzinae
Tribe: Sciomyzini
Genus: Colobaea
Zetterstedt, 1837
Type species
Opomyza bifasciella
Fallén, 18201
Synonyms

Colobaea is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.12

Species

  • C. acuticerca Carles-Tolrá, 20083
  • C. americana Steyskal, 19544
  • C. beckeri (Hendel, 1902)
  • C. bifasciella (Fallén, 1820)
  • C. canadensis Knutson & Orth, 1990
  • C. distincta (Meigen, 1830)
  • C. eos Rozkosny, 1991
  • C. flavipleura Rozkosny, 1991
  • C. limbata (Hendel, 1933)
  • C. montana Knutson & Orth, 1990
  • C. nigroaristata Rozkosny, 1984
  • C. occidentalis Knutson, Deeming & Ebejer, 20185
  • C. pectoralis (Zetterstedt, 1847)
  • C. punctata (Lundbeck, 1923)
References

References

  1. Rozkošný, R. (1984). The Sciomyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica. Vol. 14. E.J. Brill/Scandinavian Science Press. pp. 224 pp. ISBN 90-04-07592-5.
  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. Carles-Tolrá, M. (2008). "Four new acalyptrate dipterous species from Spain (Diptera: Camillidae, Carnidae and Sciomyzidae)" (PDF). Heteropterus Revista de Entomología. 8 (2): 125–130. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
  4. Steyskal, George C. (1954). "Colobaea and Hedria, Two Genera of Sciomyzidae New to America (Diptera: Acalyptratae)". The Canadian Entomologist. 86 (2): 60–65.
  5. Knutson, L.V.; Deeming, J.C.; Ebejer, M.J. (2018). "The Snail-killing Flies (Diptera: Sciomyzidae) of West Africa". Zootaxa. 4483 (1): 67–100.