Amedia (fly)

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Amedia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Cecidomyiidae
Subfamily: Micromyinae
Tribe: Strobliellini
Genus: Amedia
Jaschhof, 1997
Type species
Amedia floridana
Jaschhof, 1997

Amedia is a genus of wood midges in the family Cecidomyiidae. The only described species - Amedia floridana - is only known from Florida. [1] The genus was established by Mathias Jaschhof in 1997. [1] [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 R.J. Gagne; M. Jaschof (2021). A Catalog of the Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) of the World (5th ed.). ISBN   978-0-9863941-3-3. Wikidata   Q109561625.
  2. Mathias Jaschhof (1997). "Descriptions of a new genus and six new species of Nearctic Lestremiinae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington . 99: 523–536. ISSN   0013-8797. Wikidata   Q114020223.