Saccopheronta

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Saccopheronta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Suborder:
Brachycera
Infraorder:
Asilomorpha
Superfamily:
Empidoidea
Family:
Dolichopodidae
Subfamily:
Medeterinae
Genus:
Saccopheronta

Becker, 1914 [1]
Type species
Saccopheronta nudipes
Becker, 1914

Saccopheronta is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is considered a synonym of Medetera by some authors (with its species treated as the Medetera aberrans group), [2] [3] and a valid genus by others. [4] [5]

Species

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References

  1. 1 2 Becker, T. (1914). "Diptères nouveaux récoltés par MM. Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique orientale". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 83: 120–130. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  2. ↑ Bickel, D.J. (1985). "A revision of the Nearctic Medetera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". Technical Bulletin. Technical bulletin 1692 (1692). United States Department of Agriculture: 1–109. doi: 10.22004/ag.econ.309598 . ISSN   0082-9811.
  3. ↑ Naglis, S.; Bickel, D. J. (2012). "Medetera (Diptera, Dolichopodidae) of Sri Lanka". Zootaxa . 3188 (1): 55–63. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3188.1.4. S2CID   3942755.
  4. ↑ Negrobov, O.P.; Vanschuytbroeck, P.; Grichanov, I.Ya (1981). "The species of the genus Saccopheronta (Diptera, Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie. 53 (4): 1–11.
  5. ↑ Grichanov, I.Ya. (1997). "Four new species of Saccopheronta Becker (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Tropical Africa with notes on the world fauna of the genus". International Journal of Dipterological Research. 8 (3): 123–134.
  6. 1 2 Robinson, Harold (1975). "Bredin-Archbold-Smithsonian Biological Survey of Dominica. The Family Dolichopodidae with Some Related Antillean and Panamanian Species (Diptera)". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology . 185 (185): 1–141. doi: 10.5479/si.00810282.185 . hdl: 10088/5375 .
  7. 1 2 3 4 Bickel, Daniel J. (1987). "A revision of the Oriental and Australian Medetera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum. 39 (4). Sydney: Australian Museum: 195–259. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.39.1987.170. ISSN   0067-1975. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 May 2017. Retrieved 22 December 2016.


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