Paraphrosylus

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Paraphrosylus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Hydrophorinae
Tribe: Aphrosylini
Genus: Paraphrosylus
Becker, 1922 [1]
Type species
Aphrosylus praedator
Wheeler, 1897 [2]

Paraphrosylus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. [3] It is distributed along rocky coasts of the Eastern Pacific, and members of the genus live in the intertidal zone. Paraphrosylus was originally established as a subgenus of Aphrosylus , but was later raised to genus rank. [4]

Species

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References

  1. ↑ Becker, T. (1922). "Dipterologischen Studien. Dolichopodidae. B. Nearktische und Neotropische Regions". Abh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien. 13 (1): 395.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Wheeler, W. M. (1897). "A genus of maritime Dolichopodidae new to America". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Zoology. Series 3. 1: 145–152, 1 pl. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Pollet, Marc A. A.; Brooks, Scott Edward; Cumming, Jeffrey Malcolm (2004). "Catalog of the Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of America north of Mexico". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. American Museum of Natural History. 283: 1–114. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2004)283<0001:cotddo>2.0.co;2. hdl:2246/451.
  5. ↑ Harmston, F. C. (1952). "New species of Dolichopodidae in the U.S. National Museum (Diptera)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 54: 281–294. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  6. ↑ Van Duzee, Millard Carr (1924). "North American species of Paraphrosylus Becker, a subgenus of Aphrosylus Walker". The Pan-Pacific Entomologist. The Pacific Coast Entomological Society. 1: 73–78.
  7. ↑ Harmston, F. C. (1951). "New species of Dolichopodidae from California and Utah (Diptera)". The Great Basin Naturalist. 11: 11–17. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.22414 . Retrieved 13 July 2016.
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