Eulimnia

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Eulimnia

Tonnoir & Malloch, 1928 [1]
Type species
Eulimnia milleri
Tonnoir & Malloch, 1928 [1]

Eulimnia is a New Zealand genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies. [2] [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Tonnoir, A. L.; Malloch, J. R. (1928). "New Zealand Muscidae Acalyptratae. Part IV. Sciomyzidae". Records of the Canterbury Museum. 3 (3): 151–179.
  2. 1 2 3 Knutson, Lloyd Vernon; Vala, Jean-Claude (2011). Biology of Snail-Killing Sciomyzidae Flies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–526. ISBN   978-0521867856.
  3. Barnes, Jeffrey K. (1980). "Taxonomy of the New Zealand genus Eulimnia, and biology and immature stages of E. philpotti (Diptera: Sciomyzidae)". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 7: 91–103. doi:10.1080/03014223.1980.10423766.