Apsona is a genus of small-headed flies. It contains only one species, Apsona muscaria, which is endemic to New Zealand.[2] It is very similar to the North American species Eulonchus smaragdinus.[3]

Apsona
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Acroceridae
Subfamily: Panopinae
Genus: Apsona
Westwood, 1876[1]
Species:
A. muscaria
Binomial name
Apsona muscaria

A second species, Apsona caerulea, was described from Brazil by Enrico Brunetti in 1926, but its true placement is not clear.[3] In a 1957 PhD thesis by Evert I. Schlinger, Apsona caerulea was transferred to the genus Lasia.[4] Because the dissertation is considered to be unpublished according to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, this nomenclatural act is not valid.

References

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  1. ^ a b Westwood, J. O. (1876). "Notae Dipterologicae. No. 3.— Descriptions of new genera and species of the family Acroceridae". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1876: 507–518.
  2. ^ Winterton, S. L. (2012). "Review of Australasian spider flies (Diptera, Acroceridae) with a revision of Panops Lamarck". ZooKeys (172): 7–75. Bibcode:2012ZooK..172....7W. doi:10.3897/zookeys.172.1889. PMC 3307363. PMID 22448114.
  3. ^ a b Paramonov, S.J. (1955). "New Zealand Cyrtidae (Diptera) and the problem of the Pacific Island fauna". Pacific Science. 9 (1): 16–25. hdl:10125/8835.
  4. ^ Schlinger, Evert Irving (1957). A generic revision and catalogue of the Acroceridae (PhD). University of California. hdl:2027/uc1.x28675.