Sigmatineurum

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Sigmatineurum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: incertae sedis
Genus: Sigmatineurum
Parent, 1938 [1]
Type species
Sigmatineurum chalybeum
Parent, 1938 [1]

Sigmatineurum is a genus of fly in the family Dolichopodidae. [2] It is endemic to Hawaii, occurring on all the main islands in the archipelago. [3] It is part of the Eurynogaster complex of genera. [4]

Species

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Parent, O. (1938). "Quelques dipteres dolichopodides des Iles Hawaii" (PDF). Konowia. 16: 209–219. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  2. ↑ Yang, D.; Zhu, Y.; Wang, M.; Zhang, L. (2006). World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera). Beijing: China Agricultural University Press. 704 pp. ISBN   9787811171020.
  3. 1 2 Evenhuis, Neal L. (2000). "A new species of Sigmatineurum (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from seeps in Waimanu Valley on the Big Island of Hawai'i" (PDF). Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1999. 63: 31–33. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
  4. ↑ Goodman, Kari Roesch; Evenhuis, Neal; Bartošová-Sojková, Pavla; O'Grady, Patrick Michael (2016). "Multiple, independent colonizations of the Hawaiian Archipelago by the family Dolichopodidae (Diptera)". PeerJ . 4: e2704. doi: 10.7717/peerj.2704 . PMC   5119231 . PMID   27896033.
  5. ↑ Parent, L.O. (1939). "Dolichopodides des Iles Hawaii recuellis par Monsieur FX. Wiliams, principalement au cours de l'annee" (PDF). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society. 10 (2): 225–249. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Evenhuis, Neal L.; Polhemus, Dan A. (1994). "Review of the endemic Hawaiian genus Sigmatineurum Parent (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. 37: 1–19.
  7. 1 2 3 Evenhuis, Neal L. (1997). "The Genus Sigmatineurum Parent in Hawaii (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with a Revised Key to Species" (PDF). Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1996. 48: 66–73. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
  8. ↑ Englund, R.A.; Evenhuis, N.L. (2005). "Sigmatineurum puleloai (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), a new species from Pelekunu Stream, Moloka'i, Hawaiian Islands" (PDF). Zootaxa. Auckland, New Zealand: Magnolia Press. 1017: 33–37. ISSN   1175-5334 . Retrieved 4 March 2017.


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