Arachnomyia

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Arachnomyia
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Arachnomyia sp.
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Neurigoninae
Tribe: Neurigonini
Genus: Arachnomyia
White, 1916 [1]
Type species
Arachnomyia arborum
White, 1916 [1]
Synonyms

Arachnomyia is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. [3] It is known from Australia.

Species

The genus includes three species:

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References

  1. 1 2 3 White, A. (1916). "The Diptera-Brachycera of Tasmania. Part III. Families Asilidae, Bombylidae, Empidae, Dolichopodidae & Phoridae". Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. 1916: 148–266. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.28993 . Retrieved 22 December 2015.
  2. Parent, O. (1933). "Nouvelle étude sur les diptères dolichopodides de la région Australienne". Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles. B. 53: 170–187.
  3. Yang, D.; Zhu, Y.; Wang, M.; Zhang, L. (2006). World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera). Beijing: China Agricultural University Press. pp. 1–704. ISBN   9787811171020.
  4. Bickel, D. J.; Dyte, C. E. (1989). "Family Dolichopodidae" (PDF). Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions: 393–418. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  5. Hardy, G. H. (1939). "Miscellaneous notes on Australian Diptera. VI. Dolichopodinae". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales . 64: 345–352.