Cryptopygiella

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Cryptopygiella
Cryptopygiella musaphila (10.3897-zookeys.966.55192) Figure 6.jpg
Cryptopygiella musaphila Robinson, male A habitus, left lateral B tip of abdomen showing opening that encloses postabdomen, right lateral. Scale bars: 0.5 mm (A), 0.25 mm (B).
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Medeterinae
Genus: Cryptopygiella
Robinson, 1975 [1]
Species:
C. musaphila
Binomial name
Cryptopygiella musaphila
Robinson, 1975 [1]

Cryptopygiella is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae from Dominica and Montserrat. It contains only one species, Cryptopygiella musaphila. [1] [2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Robinson, Harold (1975). "Bredin-Archbold-Smithsonian Biological Survey of Dominica. The Family Dolichopodidae with Some Related Antillean and Panamanian Species (Diptera)". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology . 185 (185): 1–141. doi: 10.5479/si.00810282.185 . hdl: 10088/5375 .
  2. Runyon, Justin B. (2020). "The Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of Montserrat, West Indies". ZooKeys (966): 57–151. Bibcode:2020ZooK..966...57R. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.966.55192 . PMC   7494662 . PMID   32982546.