Bolbomyia
Appearance
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Bolbomyia | |
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Bolbomyia wuorentausi | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Suborder: | Brachycera |
Infraorder: | Tabanomorpha |
Superfamily: | Rhagionoidea |
Family: | Bolbomyiidae Stuckenberg, 2001 |
Genus: | Bolbomyia Loew, 1850[1] |
Type species | |
Bolbomyia nana Loew, 1862
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Species | |
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Bolbomyia is a genus of snipe flies, and the sole genus in the family Bolbomyiidae; until 2010, it was placed in the family Rhagionidae.[2] They are a small 2 to 3.5 mm, brown or black in color, with lightly infuscate (darkened) wings. They are restricted to the north temperate region of North America and Russian Far East (Kamchatka).
Species
[edit]- †B. loewi Meunier, 1902 - fossil Baltic
- B. melanderi Chillcott, 1963 - Nearctic
- B. nana Loew, 1862 - Nearctic
- B. wuorentausi (Szilády, 1934) - Russia
References
[edit]- ^ "Nomenclator Detail Record".
- ^ Kerr, P.H. 2010: Phylogeny and classification of Rhagionidae, with implications for Tabanomorpha (Diptera: Brachycera). Zootaxa, 2592: 1–133.