Biology:Whitneyomyia

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Short description: Genus of insects

Whitneyomyia
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tabanidae
Subfamily: Tabaninae
Tribe: Tabanini
Genus: Whitneyomyia
Bequaert, 1933[2]
Species:
W. beatifica
Binomial name
Whitneyomyia beatifica
(Whitney, 1914)[1]
Synonyms
  • Snowiellus stygius Enderlein, 1925[3]
  • Tabanus ater Palisot de Beauvois, 1811
  • Tabanus beatifica Whitney, 1914[1]
  • Tabanus lugubris Macquart, 1838[4]

Whitneyomyia is a genus of horse flies in the family Tabanidae. There is at least one described species in Whitneyomyia, W. beatifica.[5][6]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Whitney, C.P. (1914). "Descriptions of four new Tabanidae, with remarks upon Chrysops cursim". The Canadian Entomologist 46: 343–346. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3088644#page/361/mode/1up. Retrieved 15 October 2022. 
  2. Bequaert, J.C. (1933). "Notes on the Tabanidae described by the late C.P. Whitney". Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History 8: 81–88. 
  3. Enderlein, G. (1925). "Studien an blutsaugenden Insekten I. Grundlagen eines neuen Systems der Tabaniden". Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologische Museum. 11: 255–409. 
  4. Macquart, P.J.M. (1838). Insectes diptères nouveaux ou peu connus. Tome premier.-1re partie. Paris: Roret. pp. 5–221, 25 pls. 
  5. Moucha, J. (1976). "Horse-flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of the World. Synoptic Catalogue.". Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae Supplements 7: 1–320. https://www.aemnp.eu/data/article-975/956-7_0_7.pdf. Retrieved 11 September 2022. 
  6. Burger, J. F. (1995). "Catalog of Tabanidae (Diptera) in North America north of Mexico". International Contributions on Entomology (Associated Publishers) 1 (1): 1–100. 

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