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