Thinolestris

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Thinolestris
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Hydrophorinae
Tribe: Aphrosylini
Genus: Thinolestris
Grootaert & Meuffels, 1988 [1]
Type species
Thinolestris luteola
Grootaert & Meuffels, 1988 [1]

Thinolestris is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. [2] The genus is distributed along coasts of the Western Pacific and Southeast Asia, and members of the genus are found in the intertidal zone. According to Grootaert and Evenhuis (2006), adults are active on beaches with small pebbles mixed with sandy patches. [3]

Species

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Grootaert, P.; Meuffels, H.J.G (1988). "Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from Papua New Guinea. 7. Description of Thinolestris gen. nov., a new beach dwelling genu of Hydrophorinae" (PDF). Indo-Malaysia Zoology. 5: 31–39. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  2. Yang, D.; Zhu, Y.; Wang, M.; Zhang, L. (2006). World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera). Beijing: China Agricultural University Press. pp. 1–704. ISBN   9787811171020.
  3. 1 2 Grootaert, Patrick; Evenhuis, Neal L. (2006). "On the distribution of the marine genus Thinolestris Grootaert & Meuffels (Diptera, Dolichopodidae) with a description of a new species from Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei" (PDF). Zootaxa . 1134: 59–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1134.1.4 . Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  4. Grootaert, P.; Meuffels, H. J. G. (2001). "Notes on marine dolichopodid flies from Thailand (Insecta: Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology . 49 (2): 339–353. Retrieved 1 December 2018.