Colobaea

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Colobaea
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Colobaea punctata
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Sciomyzidae
Subfamily: Sciomyzinae
Tribe: Sciomyzini
Genus: Colobaea
Zetterstedt, 1837
Type species
Opomyza bifasciella
Fallén, 1820 [1]
Synonyms

Colobaea is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies. [1] [2]

Species

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<i>Euthycera</i> Genus of flies

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<i>Sepedon</i> Genus of flies

Sepedon is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.

<i>Sepedon sphegea</i> Species of fly

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<i>Pherbina</i> Genus of flies

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<i>Anticheta</i> Genus of flies

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Atrichomelina is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.

<i>Limnia</i> (fly) Genus of flies

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<i>Dictya</i> Genus of flies

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Elgiva is a genus of marsh flies in the family Sciomyzidae. There are about eight described species in Elgiva.

<i>Pteromicra</i> Genus of flies

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<i>Ilione</i> (fly) Genus of flies

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Sepedonea is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.

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Sciomyzinae is a subfamily of flies in the family Sciomyzidae.

References

  1. 1 2 Rozkošný, R. (1984). The Sciomyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica. Vol. 14. E.J. Brill/Scandinavian Science Press. pp. 224 pp. ISBN   90-04-07592-5.
  2. ↑ Knutson, Lloyd Vernon; Vala, Jean-Claude (2011). Biology of Snail-Killing Sciomyzidae Flies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–526. ISBN   978-0521867856.
  3. ↑ Carles-Tolrá, M. (2008). "Four new acalyptrate dipterous species from Spain (Diptera: Camillidae, Carnidae and Sciomyzidae)" (PDF). Heteropterus Revista de Entomología. 8 (2): 125–130. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
  4. ↑ Steyskal, George C. (1954). "Colobaea and Hedria, Two Genera of Sciomyzidae New to America (Diptera: Acalyptratae)". The Canadian Entomologist. 86 (2): 60–65.
  5. ↑ Knutson, L.V.; Deeming, J.C.; Ebejer, M.J. (2018). "The Snail-killing Flies (Diptera: Sciomyzidae) of West Africa". Zootaxa. 4483 (1): 67–100.


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