Biology:Empidadelpha pokekeao

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Short description: Species of fly

Empidadelpha pokekeao
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Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Superfamily: Empidoidea
Family: Empididae
Subfamily: Empidinae
Genus: Empidadelpha
Species:
E. pokekeao
Binomial name
Empidadelpha pokekeao
Kerr and Tweed, 2021[1]

Empidadelpha pokekeao is a species of dance flies, in the fly family Empididae. This fly is according to Kerr and Tweed (2021) "distinguished from other Empidadelpha by the body and leg colours, the greater length of the male postpedicel, and the distinctively darkened wings with very dark cloud at wing tip". Its species name in Te Reo Māori, pokekeao, references this colouration of the wing tip. The holotype is stored Otago Museum with paratypes also at the New Zealand Arthropod Collection.[1]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q108083403 entry