Biology:Limnophora

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Short description: Genus of flies

Limnophora
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Limnophora tigrina
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Muscidae
Tribe: Limnophorini
Genus: Limnophora
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830[1]
Type species
Limnophora palustris
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830[1][2] [failed verification]

Limnophora is a genus of flies, belonging to the family Muscidae. The flies are characterized by silver bands across their thorax. The tribe Limnophorini is named from the genus.

The genus includes the following species:[3]

  • Limnophora corvina (Giglio-Tos, 1893)
  • Limnophora discreta Stein, 1898
  • Limnophora femorata (Malloch, 1913)
  • Limnophora garrula (Giglio-Tos, 1893)
  • Limnophora groenlandica Malloch, 1920
  • Limnophora incrassata Malloch, 1919
  • Limnophora invada Huckett, 1966
  • Limnophora minuscula (Wulp, 1896)
  • Limnophora narona Walker
  • Limnophora nigripes (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830)[1]
  • Limnophora normata Bigot, 1885
  • Limnophora rotundata (Collin, 1930)
  • Limnophora sinuata Collin, 1930
  • Limnophora uniseta Stein, 1916

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Robineau-Desvoidy, André Jean Baptiste (1830). "Essai sur les myodaires". Mémoires presentés à L'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, par divers savants et lus dans ses assemblées: Sciences, Mathématiques et Physique 2 (2): 1–813. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3472165#page/9/mode/1up. Retrieved 15 July 2018. 
  2. D. W. Coquillett (1901). "Types of anthomyid genera". Journal of the New York Entomological Society 9 (3): 134–146. 
  3. "Limnophora". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=150730. 

Wikidata ☰ Q13855538 entry