Tetanoceroides

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Tetanoceroides
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Sciomyzidae
Subfamily: Sciomyzinae
Tribe: Tetanocerini
Genus: Tetanoceroides
Malloch, 1933 [1]
Type species
Tetanoceroides mesopleuralis
Malloch, 1933 [1]

Tetanoceroides is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies. [2]

Species

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Malloch, John Russell (1933). "Acalyptrata; Heleomyzidae, Trypetidae, Sciomyzidae, Sapromyzidae". Diptera of Patagonia and South Chile. 6 (4): 177–389.
  2. Knutson, Lloyd Vernon; Vala, Jean-Claude (2011). Biology of Snail-Killing Sciomyzidae Flies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–526. ISBN   978-0521867856.
  3. 1 2 3 Zuska, J.; Berg, C. O. (1974). "A revision of the South American genus Tetanoceroides (Diptera, Sciomyzidae) with notes on colour variations correlated with mean temperatures". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 125 (3). London: The Royal Entomological Society of London: 329–362.