Cunomyia is a genus of flies in the family Empididae from montane sites in western Tasmania, of which almost all of them are in the Tasmanian World Heritage Area.
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Empididae |
Subfamily: | Empidinae |
Genus: | Cunomyia Bickel, 1998 |
First described in 1998 by Daniel Bickel in his paper, "Cunomyia, a distinctive new hilarine fly genus from the Tasmanian World Heritage Area", as being a monotypic genus only from Tasmania.[1]
Etymology
editCunomyia is a combination of the Latin "cuua", meaning cradle, and "myia", a Greek word meaning fly, referring to the type locality in Cradle Valley, Tasmania.[1]
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