Afrotethina

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Afrotethina
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Afrotethina

Munari, 1986
Type species
Afrotethina aemiliani
Munari, 1986 [1]

Afrotethina is a genus of beach flies in the family Canacidae (formally Tethinidae). All known species are Afrotropical in distribution . [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Munari, Lorenzo (1986). "Contributo alla conoscenza dei Tethinidae afrotropicali. II. Considerazioni tassonomiche sulla sottofamiglia Horaismopterinae Sabr. e descrizione di un genere e due specie nuove (Diptera, Tethinidae)". Società Veneziana di Scienze Naturali - Lavori. 11: 41–52.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Munari, L.; Mathis, W.N. (2010). "World Catalog of the Family Canacidae (including Tethinidae) (Diptera), with keys to the supraspecific taxa" (PDF). Zootaxa. Magnolia Press. 2471: 1–84. ISSN   1175-5334 . Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  3. Lamb, C.G. (1914). "The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under the leadership of Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner, M.A. Volume V. Number XV. ─ Diptera: Heteroneuridae, Ortalidae, Trypetidae, Sepsidae, Micropezidae, Drosophilidae, Geomyzidae, Milichidae" (PDF). Transactions of the Linnean Society, series 2, Zoology. The Linnean Society, London. 16: 307–372. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1913.tb00152.x.
  4. 1 2 Munari, Lorenzo (1990). "Contributo alla conoscenza dei Tethinidae afrotropicali. IV. Tethinidae raccolti ad Aldabra dalla "Aldabra Atoll Royal Society xpedition (1967–68)" e nel Sud Africa da R.E. Turner e B. & P. Stuckenberg, condescrizione di due nuove sp ecie (Diptera, Acalyptratae)". Società Veneziana di Scienze Naturali - Lavori. Società Veneziana di Scienze. 15: 51–68.
  5. Munari, Lorenzo (1981). "Sul genere Pseudorhicnoessa Malloch, 1914 (Diptera Tethinidae)". Società Veneziana di Scienze Naturali - Lavori. Società Veneziana di Scienze. 6: 91–96.
  6. Munari, Lorenzo (1994). "Contribution to the Knowledge of Afrotropical Tethinidae. VII. New Species and Records, with a Check-list of Afrotropical Species (Diptera, Acalyptratae)". Società Veneziana di Scienze Naturali - Lavori. Società Veneziana di Scienze. 19: 15–28.
  7. Munari, Lorenzo (2005). "Indo-Pacific beach flies (Diptera: Tethinidae): New species and records from the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans". Studia dipterologica. 11 (2): 585–596.
  8. Munari, Lorenzo (1991). "Contribution to the Knowledge of Afrotropical Tethinidae. VI. A New Species of Afrotethina Munari, 1986 from Namibia, with a Key to the Species of the Genus and New Records of Tethinidae (Diptera) from the Afrotropical Region". Annals of the Natal Museum. The Natal Museum. 32: 179–185.