Minettia

Minettia
Minettia longipennis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Lauxaniidae
Subfamily: Lauxaniinae
Genus: Minettia
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
Type species
Minettia nemorosa
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
Subgenera
Synonyms

Prorhaphochaeta Czerny, 1932

Minettia longipennis feeding on grass (video, 1m 17s)

Minettia is a genus of small flies of the family Lauxaniidae. They have almost worldwide distribution, is one of the most species rich genera of the family with slightly less than 100 known species. The Palaearctic is the most diverse with some 56 described species.[1] The genus is divided into 3 subgenera.[2]

Species

  • M. crassulata Shatalkin, 1998[1]
  • M. divaricata Sasakawa, 1985[1]
  • M. filia (Becker, 1895)[1][3]
  • M. fuscescens Shatalkin, 1998[1]
  • M. gemina Shatalkin, 1992[1]
  • M. gemmata Shatalkin, 1992[1]
  • M. helva Czerny, 1932[1]
  • M. helvola (Becker, 1895)[1]
  • M. ishidai (Sasakawa, 1985)[1]
  • M. loewi (Schiner, 1864)[1]
  • M. omei Shatalkin, 1998[1]
  • M. punctata Sasakawa, 1985[1]
  • M. styriaca (Strobl, 1892)[1]
  • M. tenebrica Shatalkin, 1992[1]
  • M. acuminata Sasakawa, 1985[1]
  • M. austriaca Hennig, 1951[1]
  • M. eoa Shatalkin, 1992[1]
  • M. kunashirica Shatalkin, 1992[1]
  • M. longipennis (Fabricius, 1794)[1][3]
  • M. martineki Ceianu, 1991[1]
  • M. nigritarsis Shatalkin, 1998[1]
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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 Шаталкин, Анатолий Иванович (2000). Определитель палеарктических мух семейства Lauxaniidae (Diptera) [Keys to the Palaearctic flies of the family Lauxaniidae (Diptera)] (Print) (in Russian). 5. Moscow: Zoologicheskie Issledovania. p. 102.
  2. Merz, Bernhard (2004). "Revision of the Minettia fasciata species-group (Diptera, Lauxaniidae)" (PDF). Revue Suisse de Zoologie. Geneva: Muséum d’histoire naturelle. 111 (1): 183–211.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Chandler, Peter J. (1998). Checklists of Insects of the British Isles (New Series) Part 1: Diptera. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. New Series. 12. London: Royal Entomological Society of London. pp. 1–234. ISBN 0-901546-82-8.
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