Biology:Arthroteles
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Short description: Genus of flies
| Arthroteles | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Rhagionidae |
| Subfamily: | Rhagioninae |
| Genus: | Arthroteles Bezzi, 1926[1] |
| Type species | |
| Arthroteles bombyliiformis Bezzi, 1926[1]
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Arthroteles is a genus of snipe fly of the family Rhagionidae. Species of Arthroteles are moderately sized, from 5 to 7.5 mm. They are gray to dark gray in colour. Their antenna bears seven to eight tapering flagellomeres, the first much larger than all others.[2]
They are only known from South Africa .
Species
- Arthroteles bombyliiformis Bezzi, 1926[1]
- Arthroteles cinerea Stuckenberg, 1956[3]
- Arthroteles longipalpis Nagatomi & Nagatomi, 1990[4]
- Arthroteles orophila Stuckenberg, 1956[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Bezzi, M. (1926). "South African Rhagionidae (Diptera) in the South African Museum". Annals of the South African Museum 23: 297-324. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42375573#page/325/mode/1up. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
- ↑ Kerr, Peter H. (2010). "Phylogeny and classification of Rhagionidae, with implications for Tabanomorpha (Diptera: Brachycera)". Zootaxa 2592 (1): 1-133.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Stuckenberg, B.R. (1956). "Notes on the genus Arthroteles Bezzi, with descriptions of two new species (Diptera: Errinidae)". Annals of the Natal Museum 13: 313-335.
- ↑ Nagatomi, A.; Nagatomi, H. (1990). "A new Arthroteles from South Africa (Diptera, Rhagionidae)". South Pacific Study 10: 309-316.
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