Biology:Platypalpus

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Short description: Genus of insects

Platypalpus
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Platypalpus notatus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Hybotidae
Subfamily: Tachydromiinae
Tribe: Tachydromiini
Genus: Platypalpus
Macquart, 1827[1]
Type species
Musca cursitans
Fabricius, 1775
Synonyms
  • Brevios Brunetti, 1913[2]
  • Cleptodromia Corti, 1907[3]
  • Howlettia Brunetti, 1913[2]
  • Phoroxypha Rondani, 1856[4]

File:Platypalpus pectoralis in copula - 2012-08-24.ogv

Platypalpus is a genus of hybotid flies. It is worldwide in distribution, but best represented in Europe, with over 200 species.[5] There are at least 580 described species in Platypalpus worldwide.

See also

References

  1. Macquart, P.J.M. (1828). Insectes diptères du nord de la France. Platypezines, dolichopodes, empides, hybotides. Lille. pp. 159 pp., 1 pl. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Brunetti, Enrico (1913). "New Indian Empididae". Records of the Indian Museum 9: 11–45. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10881561#page/55/mode/1up. Retrieved 13 April 2019. 
  3. Corti, Emilio (1907). "Eine neue Art der Dipterengattung Tachydromia (Mg.) Lw.". Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 26: 101–102. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12558282#page/133/mode/1up. Retrieved 14 May 2023. 
  4. Rondani, Camillo (1856). Dipterologiae Italicae Prodromus. Vol: I. Genera italica ordinis Dipterorum ordinatim disposita et distincta et in familias et stirpes aggregata. Parmae [= Parma].: A. Stocchi. pp. 226 + [2] pp. 
  5. Chvála, Milan (1975). The Tachydromiinae (Diptera; Empididae) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica. 3. Klampenborg: Scandinavian Science Press Ltd. pp. 1–336. ISBN 87-87491-04-4. 

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