Biology:Acymatopus
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Short description: Genus of flies
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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: | Acymatopus Takagi, 1965[1] |
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| Acymatopus major Takagi, 1965[1]
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Acymatopus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.[2][1] It is distributed in Japan and China , and lives exclusively on marine coasts. It is similar in appearance to the genus Conchopus, which is also found in marine coasts.[3]
Species
There are six known species in the genus:[3]
- Acymatopus femoralis Takagi, 1965[1] – Japan (Shikoku and Kyushu)
- Acymatopus longisetosus Takagi, 1965[1] – Japan (along the Pacific coast of eastern Honshu)
- Acymatopus major Takagi, 1965[1] – Japan (along the eastern shore of the Kii Peninsula and the Pacific coast of Kyushu)
- Acymatopus minor Takagi, 1965[1] – Japan (widely distributed, except for areas along the Pacific coast of northern Honshu)
- Acymatopus oxycercus Masunaga, Saigusa & Yang, 2005[3] – Japan (Chiba Prefecture and Shizuoka Prefecture)
- Acymatopus takeishii Masunaga, Saigusa & Yang, 2005[3] – Northeast China (Dalian)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Takagi, Sadao (1965). "A contribution to the knowledge of the marine shore Dolichopodidae of Japan (Diptera)". Insecta Matsumurana 27 (2): 49–84. http://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/9721/1/27%282%29_p49-84.pdf. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
- ↑ 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 3.2 3.3 Masunaga, Kazuhiro; Saigusa, Toyohei; Yang, Ding (2005). "Taxonomy of the genus Acymatopus Takagi (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". Entomological Science 8 (3): 301–311. doi:10.1111/j.1479-8298.2005.00129.x.
Wikidata ☰ Q4678016 entry
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