Tethinosoma

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Tethinosoma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Canacidae
Subfamily: Horaismopterinae
Genus: Tethinosoma
Malloch, 1930 [1]
Species:
T. fulvifrons
Binomial name
Tethinosoma fulvifrons
(Hutton, 1901) [2]
Synonyms

Tethinosoma is a genus of beach flies in the family Canacidae. The only known species, T. fulvifrons, is from New Zealand. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Malloch, J.R. (1930). "New Zealand Muscidae Acalyptratae. Family Helomyzidae. (Supplement)". Records of the Canterbury Museum. 3: 333–344.
  2. 1 2 Hutton, F.W. . (1901). "Synopsis of the Diptera Brachyera of New Zealand". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. (1900) 33: 1–95. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  3. ↑ Munari, Lorenzo; Mathis, Wayne N. (2010). "World Catalog of the Family Canacidae (including Tethinidae) (Diptera), with keys to the supraspecific taxa" (PDF). Zootaxa . 2471: 1–84. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2471.1.1.
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