Procanace

Procanace
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Canacidae
Subfamily:	Nocticanacinae
Genus:	Procanace Hendel, 1913
Type species
Procanace grisescens Hendel, 1913

Procanace is a genus of beach flies (insects in the family Canacidae). All known species are Oriental, Afrotropical, Palaearctic, Neotropical or Australasian. ^[1]

Identification

They are the only Nocticanacinae where the interfrontal setae are absent. ^[2]

Species

• P. acuminata Hardy and Delfinado, 1980
• P. aestuaricola Miyagi, 1965
• P. bifurcata Hardy and Delfinado, 1980
• P. canzonerii Mathis and Freidberg, 1991
• P. cogani Mathis, 1988
• P. confusa Hardy and Delfinado, 1980
• P. constricta Hardy and Delfinado, 1980
• P. cressoni Wirth, 1951
• P. dianneae Mathis, 1988
• P. flavescens Miyagi, 1965
• P. flaviantennalis Miyagi, 1965
• P. fulva Miyagi, 1965
• P. gressitti Delfinado, 1970
• P. grisescens Hendel, 1913
• P. hendeli Delfinado, 1971
• P. mcalpinei [sic] Mathis, 1996
• P. macquariensis Womersley, 1937
• P. nakazatoi Miyagi, 1965
• P. nigroviridis Cresson, 1926
• P. novaeguineae Delfinado, 1970
• P. opaca de Meijere, 1916
• P. pauliani Mathis and Wirth, 1979
• P. pninae Mathis and Freidberg, 1991
• P. quadrisetosa Hardy and Delfinado, 1980
• P. rivalis Miyagi, 1965
• P. suigoensis Miyagi, 1965
• P. taiwanensis Delfinado, 1971
• P. townesi Wirth, 1951
• P. williamsi Wirth, 1951
• P. wirthi Hardy and Delfinado, 1980

References

1. Mathis, Wayne N. (1992). "World Catalog of the Beach-Fly Family Canacidae (Diptera)". Smithson. Contributions Zool. (Print). 536 (536). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press: 1–18. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.536.
2. Munari, Lorenzo; Mathis, Wayne N. (2010). "World Catalog of the Family Canacidae (including Tethinidae) (Diptera), with keys to the supraspecific taxa" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2471. Auckland, New Zealand: Magnolia Press: 1–84. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2471.1.1. ISSN   1175-5334 . Retrieved 25 January 2012.