Canacidae
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Section: | Schizophora |
| Subsection: | Acalyptratae |
| Superfamily: | Carnoidea |
| Family: | Canacidae Jones, 1906 |
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Canacidae, incorrectly Canaceidae, or beach flies, surf or surge flies, is a family of Diptera.There are 113 species in 12 genera.[1][2][3][4]
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[edit] Family description
See [1] Drawings of Canace.
[edit] Classification
- Subfamily Canacinae Jones, 1906
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- Tribe Canacini Jones, 1906
- Tribe Dynomiellini Mathis, 1982
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- Canacea Cresson, 1924
- Chaetocanace Hendel, 1914
- Dynomiella Giordani Soika, 1956
- Isocanace Mathis, 1982
- Trichocanace Wirth, 1951
- Xanthocanace Hendel, 1914
- Subfamily Apetaeninae Mathis & Munari, 1996
- Subfamily Horaismopterinae Sabrosky, 1978
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- Horaismoptera Hendel, 1907
- Tethinosoma Malloch, 1930
- Subfamily Nocticanacinae Mathis, 1982
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- Canaceoides Cresson, 1934
- Nocticanace Malloch, 1933
- Paracanace Mathis & Wirth, 1978
- Procanace Hendel, 1913
- Subfamily Zaleinae McAlpine, 1985
[edit] Biology
Canacidae are mostly intertidal flies.
[edit] References
- ^ Mathis, Wayne N. (1992). "World Catalog of the Beach-Fly Family Canacidae (Diptera)" (Print). Smithson. Contr. Zool. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press) 536: 1-18.
- ^ Munari, Lorenzo; Mathis, Wayne N. (2010). "World Catalog of the Family Canacidae (including Tethinidae) (Diptera), with keys to the supraspecific taxa" (PDF). Zootaxa (Auckland, New Zealand: Magnolia Press) 2471: 1–84. ISSN 1175-5334. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/z02471p084f.pdf. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
- ^ Mathis, Wayne N (1998). Papp, L. Darvas, B. ed. Family Canacidae. Contributions to a Manual of palaearctic Diptera. 3. Budapest: Science Herald,. pp. 251-257.
- ^ Mathis, Wayne N; Freidberg, A. (1991). "Review of Afrotropical beach flies of the tribe Canacini and subfamily Nocticanacinae (Diptera: Canacidae)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington (Washington DC, USA: Entomological Society of Washington) 93: 70-85. ISSN 0013-8797.
[edit] External links
- http://www.diptera.info/downloads/Munari_Almeida_Andrade_2009.pdf Munari, Almeida, Andrade Description of a new species of Tethina Excellent photos.
- Diptera.info Images
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