Biology:Thinolestris
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Short description: Genus of flies
| Thinolestris | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Dolichopodidae |
| Subfamily: | Hydrophorinae |
| Tribe: | Aphrosylini |
| Genus: | Thinolestris Grootaert & Meuffels, 1988 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Thinolestris luteola Grootaert & Meuffels, 1988 [1]
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Thinolestris is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.[2] The genus is distributed along coasts of the Western Pacific and Southeast Asia, and members of the genus are found in the intertidal zone. According to Grootaert and Evenhuis (2006), adults are active on beaches with small pebbles mixed with sandy patches.[3]
Species
- Thinolestris luteola Grootaert & Meuffels, 1988[1] – Papua New Guinea
- Thinolestris nigra Grootaert & Evenhuis, 2006[3] – Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei
- Thinolestris obscura Grootaert & Meuffels, 1988[1] – Indonesia (North Sulawesi)
- Thinolestris thaica Grootaert & Meuffels, 2001[4] – Thailand, Malaysia
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Grootaert, P.; Meuffels, H.J.G (1988). "Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from Papua New Guinea. 7. Description of Thinolestris gen. nov., a new beach dwelling genu of Hydrophorinae". Indo-Malaysia Zoology 5: 31–39. http://www.naturalsciences.be/LIII/pdf/indo_malayan/vol5_1988/vol5-1/Grootaert_1988.pdf. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Grootaert, Patrick; Evenhuis, Neal L. (2006). "On the distribution of the marine genus Thinolestris Grootaert & Meuffels (Diptera, Dolichopodidae) with a description of a new species from Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei". Zootaxa 1134: 59–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1134.1.4. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2006f/z01134p068f.pdf. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
- ↑ Grootaert, P.; Meuffels, H. J. G. (2001). "Notes on marine dolichopodid flies from Thailand (Insecta: Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 49 (2): 339–353. https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/app/uploads/2017/06/49rbz339-353.pdf. Retrieved 1 December 2018.
Wikidata ☰ Q7784625 entry
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