Lapita (fly)

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Lapita
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Sciapodinae
Tribe: Chrysosomatini
Genus: Lapita
Bickel, 2002 [1]
Type species
Psilopodius noumeanus
Bigot, 1890

Lapita is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is known from New Caledonia, Fiji and Vanuatu. [1] [2] [3]

Species

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References

  1. 1 2 Bickel, D. J. (2002). "The Sciapodinae of New Caledonia (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". In Grandcolas, P.; Najt, J. (eds.). Zoologia Neocaledonica 5. Systématique et endémisme en Nouvelle-Calédonie. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. Vol. 187. pp. 11–83. ISBN   2-85653-179-2.
  2. ↑ Bickel, D. J. (2016). "Lapita (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Sciapodinae) from Fiji and Vanuatu". Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 159 (3): 165–195. doi:10.1163/22119434-15903003.
  3. ↑ 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.


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