Thecomyia

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Thecomyia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Sciomyzidae
Subfamily: Sciomyzinae
Tribe: Tetanocerini
Genus: Thecomyia
Perty, 1833 [1]
Type species
Thecomyia longicornis
Perty, 1833 [1]

Thecomyia is a Neotropical genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies. [2] [3]

Species

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Perty, M. (1833). Delectus animalium articulatorum quae in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I. Bavariae regis augustissimi peracto collegerunt Dr. J.B. de Sphix et Dr. C.F. Ph. De Martius. Munich. pp. 189, pl. 37.
  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. ↑ Abercrombie, J.; Berg, C. O. (1975). "Natural history of Thecomyia limbata (Diptera: Sciomyzidae) from Brazil". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 77 (3): 355–368.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Marinoni, Luciane; Steyskal, George C.; Knutson, Lloyd (2003). "Revision and cladistic analysis of the Neotropical Genus Thecomyia Perty (Diptera: Sciomyzidae)". Zootaxa. Auckland, New Zealand: Magnolia Press. 191 (1): 1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.191.1.1. ISSN   1175-5334.
  5. ↑ Mortelmans, J.; Pollet, M. (2018). "New data and species of Thecomyia Perty, 1833 (Diptera: Sciomyzidae) from Mitaraka (French Guiana), with notes on the genus, in Touroult J., "Our Planet Reviewed" 2015 large-scale biotic survey in Mitaraka, French Guiana". Zoosystema. 40 (17): 415–423. doi:10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a17. S2CID   92668763 . Retrieved 25 November 2018.
  6. ↑ Walker, Francis (1858). "Characters of undescribed Diptera in the collection of W. W. Saunders, Esq., F. R. S., &c". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 4: 119–153.


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