Biology:Lispe

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Short description: Genus of flies

Lispe
File:Lispe tentaculata male - 2012-05-31.ogv
Male Lispe tentaculata
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Muscidae
Tribe: Limnophorini
Genus: Lispe
Latreille, 1796
Type species
Musca tentaculata
De Geer, 1776[1] Free to read
Diversity
at least 170 species
Lispe pygmaea

Lispe is a genus of true flies belonging to the family Muscidae.[2]

The adults are predators of small insects. Larvae are also predators, and live in damp sand and mud.[3][4]

See also

References

  1. Coquillett, D.W. (September 1901). "Types of anthomyid genera". Journal of the New York Entomological Society (New York: The New York Entomological Society) 9 (3): 134–146. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25002949. 
  2. D'Assis Fonseca, E.C.M. (1968). Diptera Cyclorrhapha Calyptrata: Muscidae. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. 10. London.: Royal Entomological Society of London. pp. 118. 
  3. Gregor, F.; Rozkosny, R.; Bartak, M.; Vanhara, J. (2002). The Muscidae (Diptera) of Central Europe. Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis. 107. Masaryk.: Masaryk University. pp. 280. 
  4. Kahanpää, Jere (2007). "Draft Catalogue of Finnish Flies (Diptera: Brachycera)". Archived from the original on 2007-05-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20070503034713/http://www.elisanet.fi/~d625473/diptera/list/online/node95.html. Retrieved 2008-04-22. 

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