Apteromicra

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Apteromicra
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Sciomyzidae
Subfamily: Sciomyzinae
Tribe: Sciomyzini
Genus: Apteromicra
Papp, 2004 [1]
Species:
A. parva
Binomial name
Apteromicra parva
Papp, 2004 [1]

Apteromicra parva is a wingless species of fly in the family Sciomyzidae from Nepal. It is the only described species in the genus Apteromicra. [1] [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Papp, László (2004). "Description of the first apterous genus of Sciomyzidae (Diptera), from Nepal". Revue suisse de zoologie; annales de la Société zoologique suisse et du Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève. 111 (1): 57–62. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
  2. ↑ Knutson, Lloyd Vernon; Vala, Jean-Claude (2011). Biology of Snail-Killing Sciomyzidae Flies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–526. ISBN   978-0521867856.


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