Platyopsis

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Platyopsis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Dolichopodinae
Genus: Platyopsis
Parent, 1929 [1]
Species:
P. maroccanus
Binomial name
Platyopsis maroccanus
(Parent, 1929) [1]
Synonyms

Hercostomus maroccanus Parent, 1929

Platyopsis is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. [2] It contains a single species, Platyopsis maroccanus.

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References

  1. 1 2 Parent, O. (1929). "Etudes sur les Dolichopodides". Encyclopèdie Entomologique (B II) Diptera. 5: 1–18.
  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.