Biology:Metaparaclius
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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: | Dolichopodinae |
| Genus: | Metaparaclius Becker, 1922[1] |
| Type species | |
| Metaparaclius subapicalis Becker, 1922[1]
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Metaparaclius is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.[2] It is known from Papua New Guinea and Australia .[3] The systematic position and monophyly of the genus are currently ambiguous: the holotype specimen of the type species, Metaparaclius subapicalis, was deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, which was destroyed during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and no other specimens of this species are currently known.[4]
Species
- Metaparaclius australiensis Parent, 1941[5] – northern Australia
- Metaparaclius subapicalis Becker, 1922[1] – New Guinea
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Becker, T. (1922). "Dipterologische Studien: Dolichopodidae der Indo-Australischen Region". Capita Zoologica 1 (4): 1–247.
- ↑ Yang, D.; Zhu, Y.; Wang, M.; Zhang, L. (2006). World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera).. Beijing: China Agricultural University Press. pp. 1–704. ISBN 9787811171020.
- ↑ Evenhius, N. L. (17 April 2016). "Family Dolichopodidae". in Evenhius, N. L.. Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions (online version). http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/aocat/doli.html. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
- ↑ Brooks, Scott E. (2005). "Systematics and phylogeny of Dolichopodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". Zootaxa 857: 1–158. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.857.1.1. http://escholarship.mcgill.ca/downloads/nk322d805.
- ↑ Parent, O (1941). "Diptères Dolichopodides de la région Indoaustralienne. Espèces et localités nouvelles.". Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 (11): 195–235.
Wikidata ☰ Q6823091 entry
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