Machaerium is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.[4] It is distributed in the Western Palaearctic, with a single record from Tanzania in the Afrotropics.[5]
| Machaerium | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Dolichopodidae |
| Subfamily: | Hydrophorinae |
| Tribe: | Thinophilini |
| Genus: | Machaerium Haliday, 1832[1] |
| Type species | |
| Machaerium maritimae | |
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Species
edit- Machaerium maritimae Haliday, 1832[1] – Europe, North Africa
- Machaerium sordidum Becker, 1908[6] – Canary Islands
- Machaerium thinophilum (Loew, 1857)[3] – Italy, Croatia, Tanzania[5]
Machaerium henanense Yang & Grootaert, 1999[7] has been renamed to Nepalomyia hui Yang & Wang, 2006[4]
References
edit- ^ a b c Haliday, A. H. (1832). "The characters of two new dipterous genera, with indications of some generic subdivisions and several undescribed species of Dolichopodidae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 5: 350–368, pl. 15.
- ^ O'Hara, James E.; Cerretti, Pierfilippo; Pape, Thomas; Evenhuis, Neal L. (2011). "Nomenclatural Studies Toward a World List of Diptera Genus-Group Names. Part II: Camillo Rondani" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3141: 1–268.
- ^ a b Loew, Hermann (1857). "Neue Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Dipteren. Fünfter Beitrag". Programm der Königlichen Realschule zu Meseritz: 1–56.
- ^ a b Yang, D.; Zhu, Y.; Wang, M.; Zhang, L. (2006). World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera). Beijing: China Agricultural University Press. pp. 1–704. ISBN 9787811171020.
- ^ a b Grichanov, I. Ya. (2011). "An illustrated synopsis and keys to afrotropical genera of the epifamily Dolichopodoidae (Diptera: Empidoidea)". Priamus Supplement (24): 1–98.
- ^ Becker, T. (1908). "Dipteren der Kanarischen Inseln". Mitteilungen aus dem zoologischen Museum in Berlin. 4. Berlin: 1–180, 4 pls. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ Yang, D.; Grootaert, P. (1999). "New and little known species of Dolichopodidae from China (V)" (PDF). Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique. Entomologie. 69: 215–232.
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