Apsona | |
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Scientific classification
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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
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Binomial name | |
Apsona muscaria |
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]
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 [4] Because the dissertation is considered to be unpublished according to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, this nomenclatural act is not valid.
Apsona | |
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Scientific classification
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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 |
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]
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 [4] Because the dissertation is considered to be unpublished according to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, this nomenclatural act is not valid.