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Spania (fly)

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Short description: Genus of flies

Spania
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Rhagionidae
Subfamily: Spaniinae
Genus: Spania
Meigen, 1830[1]
Type species
Spania nigra
Meigen, 1830[1]
Synonyms
  • Archicera Szilády, 1934[2]
  • Spanda Bigot, 1856[3]

Spania is a genus of snipe flies of the family Rhagionidae.[4][5]

Spania are small - 2 to 3.0 mm, dark brown to black in colour.

Species

  • Spania americana Johnson, 1923[6]
  • Spania kyushuensis Nagatomi & Saigusa, 1982[7]
  • Spania naitoi Nagatomi & Saigusa, 1982[7]
  • Spania nigra Meigen, 1830[1]
  • Stylospania lancifera Frey, 1954[8]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 (in de) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten. (Volume 6). Schulz-Wundermann. 1830. https://dlib.stanford.edu:6521/text1/dd-ill/insekten6.pdf. 
  2. ↑ Szilády, Z. (1934). "Die palaearktischen Rhagioniden". Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 28 (2): 229-270. http://publication.nhmus.hu/pdf/annHNHM/Annals_HNHM_1934_Vol_28_229.pdf. Retrieved 30 November 2022. 
  3. ↑ Bigot, J.M.F. (1856). "Essai d'une classification generale et synoptique de l'ordre des insectes diptères. 4e memoire. Tribus des Tabani, Nemestrinidii, Cyrtidii et Leptidii (mini)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4 (3): 51-91. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34154#page/57/mode/1up. Retrieved 16 November 2022. 
  4. ↑ Stubbs, Alan E.; Drake, Martin (2001). British Soldierflies and their allies: A Field Guide to the Larger British Brachycera. London: British Entomological and Natural History Society. pp. 528 pages. ISBN 1-899935-04-5. 
  5. ↑ Kerr, Peter H. (2010). "Phylogeny and classification of Rhagionidae, with implications for Tabanomorpha (Diptera: Brachycera)". Zootaxa 2592 (1): 1-133. 
  6. ↑ Johnson, C.W. (1923). "New and interesting species of Diptera". Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History 5: 69-72. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/111780#page/95/mode/1up. Retrieved 1 December 2022. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Nagatomi, A.; Saigusa, T. (1982). "The Japanese Spania (Diptera, Rhagionidae)". Kontyû 50: 225-232. 
  8. ↑ Frey, R. (1954). "Studien über ostasiatische Dipteren. III. Rhachiceridae, Rhagionidae, Hilarimorphidae". Notul. entomol. 34: 1-25. 

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