Leptynoma

Leptynoma
Leptynoma sericea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Vermileonidae
Genus:	Leptynoma Westwood, 1876 [1]
Type species
Leptynoma sericea Westwood, 1876 [1]

Leptynoma is a genus of wormlions in the family Vermileonidae.

Species

• Leptynoma appendiculata (Bezzi, 1926) ^[2]
• Leptynoma hessei (Stuckenberg, 1961) ^[3]
• Leptynoma kirkspriggsi Stuckenberg, 1998 ^[4]
• Leptynoma namaquaensis (Stuckenberg, 1960)
• Leptynoma sericea Westwood, 1876 ^[1]

Species transferred to Perianthomyia (formerly a subgenus of Leptynoma): ^[5]

• Leptynoma maculata(Stuckenberg, 1961) ^[3]
• Leptynoma monticolaStuckenberg, 2000 ^[6]
• Leptynoma phantasmaStuckenberg, 1996 ^[7]

References

1. Westwood, J.O. (1876). "Notae Dipterologicae. No. 3.--Descriptions of new genera and species of the family Acroceridae". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1876: 507–518, pls. 5–6. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
2. Bigot, J.M.F. (1885). "[Note sur le genre Lampromyia]". Bulletin Bimensuel de la Société entomologique de France. 1885 (7): lxvii–lxviii.
3. Stuckenberg, B.R. (1961). "Diptera (Brachycera): Rhagionidae". South African Animal Life. 7[1960]: 216–308.
4. Stuckenberg, B.R. (1998). "A new Namibian wormlion species, with an account of the biogeography of Leptynoma Westwood s. str. and its association with anthophily in Fynbos and succulent Karoo Biomes (Diptera, Vermileonidae)". Ann. Natal Mus. 39: 165–183. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
5. Stuckenberg, B.R. (2000). "Namamyia, a new genus of Vermileonidae (Diptera) from Namaqualand, with a conspectus of the Southern African genera and an account of their adaptations for anthophily". Annals of the Natal Museum. 41: 181–202.
6. Stuckenberg, B.R. (2000). "The Vermileonidae (Diptera) of Namibia, with the description of a new species of Perianthomyia Stuckenberg from the Brandberg Massif". Cimbebasia. 16: 47–54.
7. Stuckenberg, B.R. (1996). "A revised generic classification of the wormlion flies of southern Africa previously place im Lampromyia Macquart, with reinstatement of Leptynoma Westwood 1876, and description of a new subgenus and two new species (Diptera, Vermileonidae)". Annals of the Natal Museum. 37: 239–266. Retrieved 3 June 2022.