Herina (fly)

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Herina
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Herina sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Family:
Ulidiidae
Subfamily:
Otitinae
Tribe:
Otitini
Genus:
Herina

Type species
Herina liturata

Herina is a genus of flies in the family Ulidiidae. It is possibly the largest genus in the family. [2]

It is a genus of distinctive, small to medium-sized, dark species about 3.5-5.5 mm long, with patterned wings. The head is variably yellowish, reddish, or darkened, whilst the body is either shining black or black dusted with grey. [3] Many are found in marshland or calcareous grassland locations and in coastal wetlands. [4]

Species

Species include:

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<i>Melieria</i> Genus of flies

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<i>Minettia</i> Genus of flies

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Herina palustris is a species of picture-winged fly in the genus Herina of the family Ulidiidae.

<i>Herina frondescentiae</i> Species of fly

Herina frondescentiae is a species of picture-winged fly in the genus Herina of the family Ulidiidae It is wetland species of about 3–4 millimetres (0.12–0.16 in) in length. found in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Latvia, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Andorra, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Ukraine, Croatia, Estonia, Poland, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Switzerland.

Herina germinationis is a species of picture-winged fly in the genus Herina of the family Ulidiidae In the United Kingdom it is a species of dry calcareous grassland including coastal cliffs. It is about 5.0–5.5 millimetres (0.20–0.22 in) long. found in the United Kingdom and Switzerland.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Otitinae</span> Subfamily of flies

Otitinae is the name of a subfamily of flies in the family Ulidiidae. It was formerly the Otitidae. Like the Ulidiinae, most species are herbivorous or saprophagous. Most species share with the Tephritidae an unusual elongated projection of the anal cell in the wing, but can be differentiated by the smoothly curving subcostal vein. Most are dull gray to shiny brown or black flies with vein R1 setulose or, in a few cases, bare.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ulidiinae</span> Subfamily of flies

The Ulidiinae are a subfamily of flies in the family Ulidiidae. Like the Otitinae, most species are herbivorous or saprophagous. Most species share with the Tephritidae an unusual elongated projection of the anal cell in the wing, but can be differentiated by the smoothly curving subcostal vein. Most are dull gray to shiny brown or black flies with vein R1 setulose or, in a few cases, bare.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Robineau-Desvoidy, André Jean Baptiste (1830). "Essai sur les myodaires". Mémoires presentés à l'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, par divers savants et lus dans ses assemblées: Sciences, Mathématiques et Physique. 2 (2): 1–813. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Kameneva, E. P. (2007). "A new species of Herina (Diptera: Ulidiidae) from Switzerland with a key to European species and notes on nomenclature and distribution" (PDF). Vestnik Zoologii. 41 (5): 405–421. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-20.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Clements, David.K.; Merz, Bernhard. (1998). "Key to the genus Herina (Diptera, Ulidiidae) in Britain". Dipterists Digest (Print). second series. Dipterists Forum. 5 (2): 55–67. ISSN   0953-7260.
  4. ↑ Clements, David.K. (1997). "Habitat preferences and distributional details: Ulidiids and Platystomatids". Picture-winged Flies Recording Scheme (Print). Dipterists Forum. 1: 3–5.
  5. 1 2 Merz, B. (2002). "A revision of the Herina lugubris species group (Diptera, Ulidiidae, Otitinae), with the description of two new species". Revue suisse de zoologie. 109: 407–431. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.79599 . Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 "Fauna Europaea project". Archived from the original on October 15, 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 Chandler, Peter J. (1998). Checklists of Insects of the British Isles (New Series) Part 1: Diptera. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. Vol. 12. London: Royal Entomological Society of London. p. 122. ISBN   0-901546-82-8.
  8. ↑ Kameneva, E.P. (2006). "East Asian and Papuan species of the genus Herina Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Ulidiidae, Otitinae)". Instrumenta Biodiversitatis (Print). 7: 15–59.


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