Biology:Acymatopus

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Acymatopus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Hydrophorinae
Tribe: Aphrosylini
Genus: Acymatopus
Takagi, 1965[1]
Type species
Acymatopus major
Takagi, 1965[1]

Acymatopus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.[2][1] It is distributed in Japan and China , and lives exclusively on marine coasts. It is similar in appearance to the genus Conchopus, which is also found in marine coasts.[3]

Species

There are six known species in the genus:[3]

  • Acymatopus femoralis Takagi, 1965[1] – Japan (Shikoku and Kyushu)
  • Acymatopus longisetosus Takagi, 1965[1] – Japan (along the Pacific coast of eastern Honshu)
  • Acymatopus major Takagi, 1965[1] – Japan (along the eastern shore of the Kii Peninsula and the Pacific coast of Kyushu)
  • Acymatopus minor Takagi, 1965[1] – Japan (widely distributed, except for areas along the Pacific coast of northern Honshu)
  • Acymatopus oxycercus Masunaga, Saigusa & Yang, 2005[3] – Japan (Chiba Prefecture and Shizuoka Prefecture)
  • Acymatopus takeishii Masunaga, Saigusa & Yang, 2005[3] – Northeast China (Dalian)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Takagi, Sadao (1965). "A contribution to the knowledge of the marine shore Dolichopodidae of Japan (Diptera)". Insecta Matsumurana 27 (2): 49–84. http://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/9721/1/27%282%29_p49-84.pdf. Retrieved 22 May 2016. 
  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. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Masunaga, Kazuhiro; Saigusa, Toyohei; Yang, Ding (2005). "Taxonomy of the genus Acymatopus Takagi (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". Entomological Science 8 (3): 301–311. doi:10.1111/j.1479-8298.2005.00129.x. 

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