Machaerium (fly)

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Machaerium
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Hydrophorinae
Tribe: Thinophilini
Genus: Machaerium
Haliday, 1832 [1]
Type species
Machaerium maritimae
Haliday, 1832 [1]
Synonyms

Machaerium is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. [4]

Species

Machaerium henanenseYang & Grootaert, 1999 [6] has been renamed to Nepalomyia hui Yang & Wang, 2006 [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Haliday, A. H. (1832). "The characters of two new dipterous genera, with indications of some generic subdivisions and several undescribed species of Dolichopodidae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 5: 350–368, pl. 15.
  2. O'Hara, James E.; Cerretti, Pierfilippo; Pape, Thomas; Evenhuis, Neal L. (2011). "Nomenclatural Studies Toward a World List of Diptera Genus-Group Names. Part II: Camillo Rondani" (PDF). Zootaxa . 3141: 1–268.
  3. 1 2 Loew, Hermann (1857). "Neue Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Dipteren. Funfter Beitrag". Progr. K. Realschule Meseritz: 1–56.
  4. 1 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.
  5. Becker, T. (1908). "Dipteren der Kanarischen Inseln". Mitteilungen aus dem zoologischen Museum in Berlin. Berlin. 4: 1–180, 4 pls. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  6. Yang, D.; Grootaert, P. (1999). "New and little known species of Dolichopodidae from China (V)" (PDF). Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique. Entomologie. 69: 215–232.