Sepsis (fly)

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Sepsis
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Sepsis fulgens
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Sepsidae
Subfamily: Sepsinae
Genus: Sepsis
Fallén, 1810 [1]
Type species
Musca cynipsea
Synonyms
  • Sepsidimorpha Frey, 1908
  • ThrexGistl, 1848
  • AllosepsisOzerov, 1992
  • Beggiatia Lioy, 1864

Sepsis is a genus of flies in the family Sepsidae. [2] [3] [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Fallen, C.F. (1810). Specim. entomolog. novam Diptera disponendi methodum exhibens. Lund: Berlingianis. pp. 26 pp., 1 pl. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  2. ↑ "Fauna Europaea". European Commission. Archived from the original on August 19, 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
  3. ↑ Pont, A.C. (1979). Sepsidae. Diptera (Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects 10/5c). London: Royal Entomological Society of London. pp. 35 pp.
  4. ↑ Pont, A.C.; Meier, R. (2002). The Sepsidae (Diptera) of Europe (Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 37). Brill. pp. 198 pp.
  5. ↑ Strobl, P.G. (1893). "Neue österreichische Muscidae Acalypterae. I. Theil". Wiener Entomologische Zeitung. 12: 225–231. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Meigen, J.W. (1826). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten. Hamm: Vierter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann. pp. xii + 412 pp., pls. 42–54.
  7. 1 2 Duda, Oswald (1926). "Monographie der Sepsiden (Dipt.). I.". Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien. 39(1925): 1–153, 7 pls.
  8. ↑ Tan, Denise S. H.; Ang, Yuchen; Lim, Gwynne S.; Ismail, Mirza Rifqi Bin; Meier, Rudolf (2010-01-01). "From 'cryptic species' to integrative taxonomy: an iterative process involving DNA sequences, morphology, and behaviour leads to the resurrection of Sepsis pyrrhosoma (Sepsidae: Diptera)". Zoologica Scripta. 39 (1): 51–61. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2009.00408.x. ISSN   1463-6409. S2CID   83660410.
  9. ↑ Ang, Y. and R. Meier. (2010). Five additions to the list of Sepsidae (Diptera) for Vietnam: Perochaeta cuirassa sp. n., Perochaeta lobo sp. n., Sepsis spura sp. n., Sepsis sepsi Ozerov, 2003 and Sepsis monostigma Thompson, 1869. ZooKeys 70 41-56.
  10. ↑ Robineau-Desvoidy, André Jean Baptiste (1830). "Essai sur les myodaires". Mémoires presentés à l'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, par divers savants et lus dans ses assemblées: Sciences, Mathématiques et Physique. 2 (2): 1–813. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  11. ↑ Iwasa, M. (1982). A new Oriental species of the genus Sepsis from Taiwan and Indonesia (Diptera: Sepsidae). Pacific Insects 24(3-4) 232-34.


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