Biology:Spania (fly)

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Short description: Genus of flies

Spania
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Rhagionidae
Subfamily: Spaniinae
Genus: Spania
Meigen, 1830[1]
Type species
Spania nigra
Meigen, 1830[1]
Synonyms
  • Archicera Szilády, 1934[2]
  • Spanda Bigot, 1856[3]

Spania is a genus of snipe flies of the family Rhagionidae.[4][5]

Spania are small - 2 to 3.0 mm, dark brown to black in colour.

Species

  • Spania americana Johnson, 1923[6]
  • Spania kyushuensis Nagatomi & Saigusa, 1982[7]
  • Spania naitoi Nagatomi & Saigusa, 1982[7]
  • Spania nigra Meigen, 1830[1]
  • Stylospania lancifera Frey, 1954[8]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 (in de) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten. (Volume 6). Schulz-Wundermann. 1830. https://dlib.stanford.edu:6521/text1/dd-ill/insekten6.pdf. 
  2. Szilády, Z. (1934). "Die palaearktischen Rhagioniden". Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 28 (2): 229-270. http://publication.nhmus.hu/pdf/annHNHM/Annals_HNHM_1934_Vol_28_229.pdf. Retrieved 30 November 2022. 
  3. Bigot, J.M.F. (1856). "Essai d'une classification generale et synoptique de l'ordre des insectes diptères. 4e memoire. Tribus des Tabani, Nemestrinidii, Cyrtidii et Leptidii (mini)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4 (3): 51-91. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34154#page/57/mode/1up. Retrieved 16 November 2022. 
  4. Stubbs, Alan E.; Drake, Martin (2001). British Soldierflies and their allies: A Field Guide to the Larger British Brachycera. London: British Entomological and Natural History Society. pp. 528 pages. ISBN 1-899935-04-5. 
  5. Kerr, Peter H. (2010). "Phylogeny and classification of Rhagionidae, with implications for Tabanomorpha (Diptera: Brachycera)". Zootaxa 2592 (1): 1-133. 
  6. Johnson, C.W. (1923). "New and interesting species of Diptera". Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History 5: 69-72. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/111780#page/95/mode/1up. Retrieved 1 December 2022. 
  7. 7.0 7.1 Nagatomi, A.; Saigusa, T. (1982). "The Japanese Spania (Diptera, Rhagionidae)". Kontyû 50: 225-232. 
  8. Frey, R. (1954). "Studien über ostasiatische Dipteren. III. Rhachiceridae, Rhagionidae, Hilarimorphidae". Notul. entomol. 34: 1-25. 

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