Metasphenisca micrura is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Metasphenisca of the family Tephritidae.[3]

Metasphenisca micrura
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Subfamily: Tephritinae
Tribe: Tephrellini
Genus: Metasphenisca
Species:
M. micrura
Binomial name
Metasphenisca micrura
Hering, 1942[1]
Synonyms
  • Metasphenisca frondifer Munro, 1947[2]

Distribution

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Kenya, Tanzania.

References

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  1. ^ Hering, E.M. (1942). "Neue Gattungen und Arten von Fruchtfliegen aus dem Zoologischen Museum der Universitat Berlin (Dipt.). (41. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Trypetidae)". Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin. 25: 274–291.
  2. ^ Munro, H.K. (1947). African Trypetidae (Diptera). A review of the transition genera between Tephritinae and Trypetinae, with a preliminary study of the male terminalia. Southern Africa: Entomological Society of Southern Africa. pp. [viii] + 28.
  3. ^ Norrbom, A.L.; Carroll, L.E.; Thompson, F.C.; White, I.M; Freidberg, A. (1999). "Systematic Database of Names. Pp. 65-252. In Thompson, F. C. (ed.), Fruit Fly Expert Identification System and Systematic Information Database". Myia. 9: vii + 524.