Parectinocera

Parectinocera is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.[2] The genus was first described by Theodor Becker in 1919.[1]

Parectinocera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Sciomyzidae
Subfamily: Sciomyzinae
Tribe: Sciomyzini
Genus: Parectinocera
Becker, 1919[1]
Type species
Parectinocera neotropica
Becker, 1919[1]

Species
  • Parectinocera dissimilis (Malloch, 1933)[3]
  • Parectinocera inaequalis (Malloch, 1933)[3]
  • Parectinocera neotropica Becker, 1919[1]

References
  1. Becker, Theodor (1919). Diptères, brachycères. Mission du Service Geographique de l'Armée pour la mesure d'un arc de méridien équatorial en Amérique du Sud sous le contrôle scientifique de l'Académie des Sciences, 1899-1906. Paris: Gauthier-Villars. p. 163. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
  2. Knutson, Lloyd Vernon; Vala, Jean-Claude (2011). Biology of Snail-Killing Sciomyzidae Flies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–526. ISBN 978-0521867856.
  3. Malloch, John Russell (1933). "Acalyptrata; Heleomyzidae, Trypetidae, Sciomyzidae, Sapromyzidae". Diptera of Patagonia and South Chile. 6 (4): 177–389.


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