Fedtshenkomyia

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Fedtshenkomyia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Peloropeodinae
Genus: Fedtshenkomyia
Stackelberg, 1927 [1]
Species:
F. chrysotymoides
Binomial name
Fedtshenkomyia chrysotymoides

Fedtshenkomyia is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. [2] It contains only one species, Fedtshenkomyia chrysotymoides, known from Central Asia. [3] The genus and species were formally described by Aleksandr Stackelberg in 1927, from two males and a female that were collected by Alexei Fedchenko in 1869 from the Yaghnob Valley in what was then Russian Turkestan. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Stackelberg, Aleksandr Aleksandrowitsch de (1927). "Dolichopodidae turanicae novae vel minus cognitae" (PDF). Konowia. 6. Vienna: 225–233. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  2. Yang, D.; Zhu, Y.; Wang, M.; Zhang, L. (2006). World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera). Beijing: China Agricultural University Press. pp. 1–704. ISBN   9787811171020.
  3. Negrobov, O.P. (1991). "Family Dolichopodidae". In Soós, A.; Papp, L. (eds.). Dolichopodidae–Platypezidae. Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Vol. 7. Elsevier. pp. 11–136. ISBN   9780444599940.