Argyra atriceps

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Argyra atriceps
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Genus: Argyra
Species:
A. atriceps
Binomial name
Argyra atriceps
Loew, 1857 [1]

Argyra atriceps is a species of fly in the family Dolichopodidae. It is found in the Palearctic. [2] [3]

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<i>Argyra</i> Genus of flies

Argyra is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. The name "Argyra" comes from the Greek word for "silver", referring to the silver pruinescence found on the males of many of the species.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dolichopodidae</span> Family of flies

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<i>Dolichopus</i> Genus of flies

Dolichopus is a large cosmopolitan genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. Adults are small flies, typically less than 8 mm in length. Nearly all species are metallic greenish-blue to greenish-bronze. It is the largest genus of Dolichopodidae with more than 600 species worldwide.

<i>Liancalus</i> Genus of flies

Liancalus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It contains at least 21 species distributed worldwide except in Australasia and Oceania. The genus includes some of the largest species in the family, with body length approaching 12 mm in some species.

Pelastoneurus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.

<i>Sciapus</i> Genus of flies

Sciapus is a genus of long-legged flies in the family Dolichopodidae. There are about 82 described species in Sciapus.

<i>Thinophilus</i> Genus of flies

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hydrophorinae</span> Subfamily of flies

Hydrophorinae is a subfamily of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. Several molecular phylogenetic analyses of the family have found evidence that the subfamily in its current sense is polyphyletic.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sciapodinae</span> Subfamily of flies

Sciapodinae is a subfamily of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dolichopodinae</span> Subfamily of flies

Dolichopodinae is a subfamily of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.

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Diaphorinae is a subfamily of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Medeterinae</span> Subfamily of flies

Medeterinae is a subfamily of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Neurigoninae</span> Subfamily of flies

Neurigoninae is a subfamily of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peloropeodinae</span> Subfamily of flies

Peloropeodinae is a subfamily of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. In some classifications, the genera of the subfamily are included in Sympycninae. According to a molecular phylogenetic analysis of the family Dolichopodidae by Germann et al. (2011), the subfamily is polyphyletic.

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References

  1. Loew, Hermann (1857). "Neue Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Dipteren. Funfter Beitrag". Progr. K. Realschule Meseritz: 1–56. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  2. 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.
  3. d'Assis Fonseca, E.C.M. (1978). "Dolichopodidae (Diptera, Orthorrhapha, Brachycera)" (PDF). Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects . London: Royal Entomological Society of London. 9 (5): 1–90. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 April 2021. Retrieved 7 July 2018.