Biology:Psilopa

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Short description: Genus of flies

Psilopa
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Psilopa cf nitidula
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Ephydridae
Subfamily: Discomyzinae
Tribe: Psilopini
Genus: Psilopa
Fallen, 1823[1]
Type species
Notiphila nitidula
Fallen, 1823[1]
Synonyms
  • Hygrella Haliday, 1839
  • Ephygrobia Schiner, 1862
  • Diasemocera Bezzi, 1895
  • Domina Hutton, 1901
  • Discocerinella Mercier, 1927

Psilopa is a genus of flies. The Petroleum fly, formerly P. petrolei, which is the only known insect to develop in naturally occurring crude oil, was transferred to genus Helaeomyia.[2]

Species

  • Psilopa aeneonigra
  • Psilopa aequalipes
  • Psilopa aethiopiae
  • Psilopa africana
  • Psilopa angola
  • Psilopa antennata
  • Psilopa apicalis
  • Psilopa atlantica
  • Psilopa bornholmi
  • Psilopa clara
  • Psilopa composita
  • Psilopa compta
  • Psilopa confentei
  • Psilopa desmata
  • Psilopa dupla
  • Psilopa elsa
  • Psilopa fannya
  • Psilopa fisseli
  • Psilopa flavescens
  • Psilopa flaviantennalis
  • Psilopa flavida
  • Psilopa flavimanus
  • Psilopa fratella
  • Psilopa gigantea
  • Psilopa girschneri
  • Psilopa gracilis
  • Psilopa grisescens
  • Psilopa iceryae
  • Psilopa insolita
  • Psilopa irregularis
  • Psilopa leucostoma (Meigen, 1830)[3]
  • Psilopa loewi
  • Psilopa mackiei
  • Psilopa marginella
  • Psilopa martima
  • Psilopa meneghinii
  • Psilopa mentita
  • Psilopa metallica
  • Psilopa nana
  • Psilopa nervimaculata
  • Psilopa nigricornis
  • Psilopa nigrifacies
  • Psilopa nigrina
  • Psilopa nigritella
  • Psilopa nigrithorax
  • Psilopa nilotica
  • Psilopa nitidifacies
  • Psilopa nitidissima
  • Psilopa nitidula Fallen, 1823[1]
  • Psilopa obscuripes
  • Psilopa ovaliformis
  • Psilopa pappi
  • Psilopa pectinata
  • Psilopa polita
  • Psilopa pulchripes
  • Psilopa pulicaria
  • Psilopa punica
  • Psilopa quadratula
  • Psilopa radiolata
  • Psilopa roederi
  • Psilopa rufibasis
  • Psilopa rufipes
  • Psilopa rufithorax
  • Psilopa rutilans
  • Psilopa senegalensis
  • Psilopa sinensis
  • Psilopa singaporensis
  • Psilopa thora
  • Psilopa tonsa
  • Psilopa urbana
  • Psilopa victoria
  • Psilopa violacea

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Fallen, C.F. (1823). Hydromyzides Sveciae. Lundae [= Lund]: Berlingianis. pp. 12pp.. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/41569#page/437/mode/1up. Retrieved 30 January 2022. 
  2. Mathis, W.N.; Zatwarnicki, T. (1995). "World catalog of shore flies (Diptera: Ephydridae)". Memoirs of Entomology, International 4: 1–423. 
  3. Meigen, J.W. (1830). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten. Hamm: Sechster Theil. Schulz. pp. xi + 401 +[3] pp. 

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