Limnia (Diptera)

Limnia
Limnia unguicornis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Sciomyzidae
Genus: Limnia
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
Type species
Musca limbata
Fabricius, 1830[1]

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

Species

References

  1. 1 2 Rozkošný, R. (1984). The Sciomyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 14. E.J. Brill/Scandinavian Science Press. p. 224. ISBN 90-04-07592-5.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Mayer, H. (1953). "Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Sciomyzidae (Diptera Musc. acalyptr.)" (PDF). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 59: 202–219. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Steyskal, G.C.; Fisher, T.W.; Knutson, L. (1978). "Taxonomy of North American flies of the genus Limnia (Diptera: Sciomyzidae)". The University of California Publications in Entomology (University of California, Berkeley) 83: 1–48.
  4. 1 2 Yano, Koji (1978). "Faunal and biological studies on the insects of paddy fields in Asia. Part I. Introduction and Sciomyzidae from Asia (Diptera)" (PDF). Esakia (Hikosan biological laboratory) 11: 1–27. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
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