Mascaromyia

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Mascaromyia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Sciapodinae
Tribe: Sciapodini
Genus: Mascaromyia
Bickel, 1994 [1]
Type species
Psilopus pollicifer
Lamb, 1922

Mascaromyia is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, endemic to the western Indian Ocean islands. It is named after the main distribution of the genus, the islands of the submarine Mascarene Plateau, combining it with "myia" (the Greek word for fly). [1]

Species

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References

  1. 1 2 Bickel, D. J. (1994). "The Australian Sciapodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with a review of the Oriental and Australasian faunas, and a world conspectus of the subfamily" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement. 21: 1–394. doi:10.3853/j.0812-7387.21.1994.50 . Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Grichanov, I. Ya. (2003). "New Afrotropical Sciapodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) with some new synonymy" (PDF). Russian Entomological Journal (published 2004). 12 (3): 329–346.
  3. 1 2 Grichanov, I.Ya. (2020). "Two new species of Mascaromyia Bickel, 1994 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Mauritius Island". Caucasian Entomological Bulletin. 16 (2): 201–205. doi: 10.23885/181433262020162-201205 .
  4. Grichanov, I. Ya. (2017). "Speciation of Mascaromyia Bickel (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) on Réunion Island" (PDF). Israel Journal of Entomology. 47: 9–18.