Protomedetera

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Protomedetera
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Medeterinae
Genus:Protomedetera
Tang, Grootaert & Yang, 2018 [1]
Type species
Protomedetera singaporensis
Grootaert & Tang, 2018 [1]

Protomedetera is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. The genus contains four species, and is found in Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia. [1]

Fly order of insects

Flies are insects with a pair of functional wings for flight and a pair of specialized hindwings called halteres for balance. They are classified as an order called Diptera, that name being derived from the Greek δι- di- "two", and πτερόν pteron "wings". The order Diptera is divided into two suborders, with about 110 families divided between them; the families contain an estimated 1,000,000 species, including the familiar housefly, horse-fly, crane fly, and hoverfly; although only about 125,000 species have a species description published. The earliest fly fossils found so far are from the Triassic, about 240 million years ago; phylogenetic analysis suggests that flies originated in the Permian, about 260 million years ago.

Dolichopodidae family of insects

Dolichopodidae, the long-legged flies, are a large, cosmopolitan family of true flies with more than 7,000 described species in about 230 genera. The genus Dolichopus is the most speciose, with some 600 species.

Papua New Guinea constitutional monarchy in Oceania

Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea is a country in Oceania that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. Its capital, located along its southeastern coast, is Port Moresby. The western half of New Guinea forms the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua.

The generic name is a combination of proto and Medetera, referring to the genus looking like a small and simplified Medetera . [1]

<i>Medetera</i> genus of insects

Medetera is a large genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.

Species

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Tang, C.; Grootaert, P.; Yang, D. (2018). "Protomedetera, a new genus from the Oriental and Australasian realms (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae)". ZooKeys (743): 137–151. doi:10.3897/zookeys.743.22696. PMC   5904401 .


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