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Canacea

Cresson, 1924 [1]
Type species
Canacea macateei
Malloch, 1924 [2]
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Canacea is a genus of beach flies in the family Canacidae. All known species are Nearctic or Neotropical. [3] [4]

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References

  1. Cresson, E.T. Jr. (1924). "Descriptions of New Genera and Species of the Dipterous Family Ephydridae, Paper VI". Entomological News. 35 (5): 159–164.
  2. 1 2 Malloch, John Russel (1924). "A new species of Canacea from the United States (Diptera: Ephydridae)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 26 (3). The Entomological Society of Washington: 52–53.
  3. Mathis, Wayne N. (1992). "World Catalog of the Beach-Fly Family Canacidae (Diptera)". Smithson. Contributions Zool. (Print). 536 (536). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press: 1–18. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.536.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Munari, L.; Mathis, W.N. (2010). "World Catalog of the Family Canacidae (including Tethinidae) (Diptera), with keys to the supraspecific taxa" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2471. Magnolia Press: 1–84. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2471.1.1. ISSN   1175-5334 . Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  5. Wirth, W.W. (1970). "The American beach flies of the Canace snodgrassii group". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 72 (3). The Entomological Society of Washington: 397–403.
  6. Cresson, E.T. Jr. (1924). "Descriptions and Notes on Genera and Species of the Dipterous Family Ephydridae, II". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 62. The American Entomological Society: 257–270.
  7. Cresson, D.W. Jr. (1901). "Papers from the Hopkins Stanford Galápagos Expedition, 1898–1899, II; Entomological Results (2): Diptera". Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 3: 371–379.