Abbemyia

Abbemyia is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, known from Australia and New Caledonia.[2] It is named after the French entomologist Abbé Octave Parent, who studied the family Dolichopodidae.[1]

Abbemyia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Sciapodinae
Tribe: Chrysosomatini
Genus: Abbemyia
Bickel, 1994[1]
Type species
Psilopus nigrofasciatus
Macquart, 1850

Species
  • Abbemyia baylaci Bickel, 2002[3]
  • Abbemyia nigrofasciata (Macquart, 1850) (Synonyms: Chrysosoma chetiscutatum Parent, 1932, Chrysosoma regale Parent, 1932)
  • Abbemyia taree Bickel, 1994[1]

References
  1. Bickel, D. J. (1994). "The Australian Sciapodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with a review of the Oriental and Australasian faunas, and a world conspectus of the subfamily" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement. 21: 1–394. doi:10.3853/j.0812-7387.21.1994.50. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  2. Evenhius, N. L. (17 April 2016). "Family Dolichopodidae". In Evenhius, N. L. (ed.). Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions (online version). Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  3. Bickel, D. J. (2002). "The Sciapodinae of New Caledonia (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. 187: 11–83.


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