Dytomyia

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Dytomyia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Sciapodinae
Tribe: Sciapodini
Genus: Dytomyia
Bickel, 1994 [1]
Type species
Sciapus sordidus
Parent, 1928

Dytomyia is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is known from Australia, Madagascar and Kenya, with an undescribed species from Papua New Guinea. [1] [2] [3]

Species

The genus contains the following species:

The species Sciapus nubilis Parent, 1935, which was described from a single female from Madagascar, was transferred to this genus in 2003, [6] but was later considered a nomen dubium in 2021. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Bickel, D. J. (1994). "The Australian Sciapodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with a review of the Oriental and Australasian faunas, and a world conspectus of the subfamily" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement. 21: 1–394. doi:10.3853/j.0812-7387.21.1994.50 . Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  2. ↑ Evenhius, N. L. (17 April 2016). "Family Dolichopodidae". In Evenhius, N. L. (ed.). Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions (online version). Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 Grichanov, I.Ya. (2021). "Discovery of Dytomyia Bickel (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) on the African continent with description of a new peculiar species from Kenya". Israel Journal of Entomology. 51: 85–91. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5589575 .
  4. 1 2 3 Grichanov, I. Ya. (1998). "New data on Sciapodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) with a revised catalogue and keys to Afrotropical species of the subfamily" (PDF). Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique. Entomologie. 68: 79–130.
  5. ↑ Grichanov, I. Ya. (1999). "New species and new records of Afrotropical Sciapodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique. Entomologie. 69: 113–135.
  6. ↑ Grichanov, I. Ya. (2003). "New Afrotropical Sciapodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) with some new synonymy" (PDF). Russian Entomological Journal (published 2004). 12 (3): 329–346.


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