Pseudoparentia

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Pseudoparentia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Sciapodinae
Tribe: Chrysosomatini
Genus: Pseudoparentia
Bickel, 1994 [1]
Type species
Pseudoparentia centralis
Bickel, 1994 [1]

Pseudoparentia is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is known from Australia. [1] [2]

Species

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 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. Evenhius, N. L. (17 April 2016). "Family Dolichopodidae". In Evenhius, N. L. (ed.). Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions (online version). Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  3. 1 2 Bickel, D. J. (2013). "The family Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of the Pilbara region, Western Australia in its Australasian biogeographic context, with the description of 19 new species" (PDF). Records of the Western Australian Museum . Supplement 83: 291–348. doi: 10.18195/issn.0313-122x.83.2013.291-348 .