Piezura is a small genus of small flies of the family Fanniidae. Distribution is mostly restricted to the Holarctic biogeographic region.[1] Two species, P. pardalina and P. graminicola are found in Europe.[2] Unlike the other Fanniidae, Piezura have plumose arista.
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| Genus: | Piezura Rondani, 1866
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Species edit
- P. graminicola (Zetterstedt, 1846)
- P. nearctica Chillcott, 1961
- P. nigrigenus Nishida, 1975 [3]
- P. pardalina Rondani, 1866
- P. pardalina shanxiensis Xue, 1999
References edit
- ^ Moores, A.; Savage, J. (2005). "A taxonomic revision of Piezura Rondani (Diptera: Fanniidae)". Zootaxa. 1096: 41–59. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1096.1.4.
- ^ Rozkosny, R.; Gregor, F.; Pont, A.C. (1997). The European Fanniidae (Diptera). Institute of Landscape Ecology. pp. 1–80.
- ^ Nishida, K. (1975). "Studies on the species of Fanniinae (Diptera: Muscidae) from Japan III: Description of Piezura nigrigenus sp. nov. and Fannia japonica amamiensis subsp. nov. and redescription of Platycoenosia mikii Strobl, 1894". Jap. J. Sanit. Zool. 26 (1): 21–24. doi:10.7601/mez.26.21.
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