Shannonia

Shannonia is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.[1]

Shannonia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Sciomyzidae
Tribe: Tetanocerini
Genus: Shannonia
Malloch, 1933[1][2]
Type species
Tetanocera costalis
Walker, 1837

Species

  • Shannonia costalis (Walker, 1837)
  • Shannonia meridionalis Zuska, 1969

References

  1. Knutson, Lloyd Vernon; Vala, Jean-Claude (2011). Biology of Snail-Killing Sciomyzidae Flies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–526. ISBN 978-0521867856.
  2. Malloch, John Russell (1933). "Acalyptrata; Heleomyzidae, Trypetidae, Sciomyzidae, Sapromyzidae". Diptera of Patagonia and South Chile. 6 (4): 177–389.


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