Spania (fly)

Short description: Genus of flies

Spania

Scientific classification
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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