Biology:Platyopsis
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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: | Platyopsis Parent, 1929[1] |
| Species: | P. maroccanus
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| Binomial name | |
| Platyopsis maroccanus (Parent, 1929)[1]
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| Synonyms | |
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Hercostomus maroccanus Parent, 1929 | |
Platyopsis is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.[2] It contains a single species, Platyopsis maroccanus, from Morocco and Algeria. According to a cladistic analysis by Brooks (2005), the genus appears closely related to Stenopygium and Pelastoneurus.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Parent, O. (1929). "Etudes sur les Dolichopodides". Encyclopèdie Entomologique (B II) Diptera 5: 1–18.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Brooks, Scott E. (2005). "Systematics and phylogeny of Dolichopodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". Zootaxa 857: 1–158. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.857.1.1. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2005f/z00857f.pdf.
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