Scelloides

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Scelloides
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Sympycninae
Genus: Scelloides
Bickel & Dyte, 1989 [1]
Type species
Scelloides ornatipes
Parent, 1933 [2]
Synonyms

Scelloides Parent, 1933
(unavailable) [2]

Scelloides is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, found in New Zealand. The genus was originally named by Octave Parent in 1933. However, as the genus was not designated a type species, this name was unavailable until 1989, when Daniel J. Bickel and C. E. Dyte designated Scelloides ornatipes as the type species. [1]

Species

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References

  1. 1 2 Bickel, D. J.; Dyte, C. E. (1989). "Family Dolichopodidae" (PDF). Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions: 393–418. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Parent, O. (1933). "Étude monographique sur les Diptères Dolichopodides de Nouvelle Zélande". Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles. Série B. Sciences Physiques et Naturelles. 53: 325–441.


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