Biology:Major (fly)
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Short description: Genus of flies
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Dolichopodidae |
| Subfamily: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | Major Evenhuis, 2005[2] |
| Species: | M. minor
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| Binomial name | |
| Major minor (Parent, 1938)[1]
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Major is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, endemic to Hawaii. It contains only one species, Major minor. It is part of the Eurynogaster complex of genera.[4] The generic name is derived from the Latin major ("large"), referring to the extremely large tarsal claws of M. minor.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Parent, O. (1938). "Quelques dipteres dolichopodides des Iles Hawaii". Konowia 16: 209–219. http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/KON_16_0209-0219.pdf. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Evenhuis, Neal L. (2005). "A review of the genera comprising species of the genus Eurynogaster sensu Hardy & Kohn, 1964 in Hawai'i (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". Zootaxa 1017 (1): 39–60. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1017.1.5. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2005f/z01017p060f.pdf. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
- ↑ Parent, L.O. (1939). "Dolichopodides des Iles Hawaii recuellis par Monsieur FX. Wiliams, principalement au cours de l'annee". Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 10 (2): 225–249. http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10125/15986/PHES10_225-249.pdf?sequence=1. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
- ↑ Goodman, Kari Roesch; Evenhuis, Neal; Bartošová-Sojková, Pavla; O'Grady, Patrick Michael (2016). "Multiple, independent colonizations of the Hawaiian Archipelago by the family Dolichopodidae (Diptera)". PeerJ 4: e2704. doi:10.7717/peerj.2704. PMID 27896033.
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