Psilopa
Genus of flies
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::summary Genus of flies ::
| image = Psilopa cf nitidula (1) - 2013-09-13.webm | image_caption = Psilopa cf nitidula | taxon = Psilopa | authority = Fallen, 1823 | display_parents = 2 | type_species = Notiphila nitidula | type_species_authority = Fallen, 1823 | synonyms = *Hygrella Haliday, 1839
Psilopa is a genus of flies. The Petroleum fly, formerly P. petrolei, which is the only known insect to develop in naturally occurring crude oil, was transferred to genus Helaeomyia.
Species
- Psilopa aeneonigra
- Psilopa aequalipes
- Psilopa aethiopiae
- Psilopa africana
- Psilopa angola
- Psilopa antennata
- Psilopa apicalis
- Psilopa atlantica
- Psilopa bornholmi
- Psilopa clara
- Psilopa composita
- Psilopa compta
- Psilopa confentei
- Psilopa desmata
- Psilopa dupla
- Psilopa elsa
- Psilopa fannya
- Psilopa fisseli
- Psilopa flavescens
- Psilopa flaviantennalis
- Psilopa flavida
- Psilopa flavimanus
- Psilopa fratella
- Psilopa gigantea
- Psilopa girschneri
- Psilopa gracilis
- Psilopa grisescens
- Psilopa iceryae
- Psilopa insolita
- Psilopa irregularis
- Psilopa leucostoma (Meigen, 1830)
- Psilopa loewi
- Psilopa mackiei
- Psilopa marginella
- Psilopa martima
- Psilopa meneghinii
- Psilopa mentita
- Psilopa metallica
- Psilopa nana
- Psilopa nervimaculata
- Psilopa nigricornis
- Psilopa nigrifacies
- Psilopa nigrina
- Psilopa nigritella
- Psilopa nigrithorax
- Psilopa nilotica
- Psilopa nitidifacies
- Psilopa nitidissima
- Psilopa nitidula Fallen, 1823
- Psilopa obscuripes
- Psilopa ovaliformis
- Psilopa pappi
- Psilopa pectinata
- Psilopa polita
- Psilopa pulchripes
- Psilopa pulicaria
- Psilopa punica
- Psilopa quadratula
- Psilopa radiolata
- Psilopa roederi
- Psilopa rufibasis
- Psilopa rufipes
- Psilopa rufithorax
- Psilopa rutilans
- Psilopa senegalensis
- Psilopa sinensis
- Psilopa singaporensis
- Psilopa thora
- Psilopa tonsa
- Psilopa urbana
- Psilopa victoria
- Psilopa violacea
References
References
- (1823). "Hydromyzides Sveciae". Berlingianis.
- (1995). "World catalog of shore flies (Diptera: Ephydridae)". Memoirs of Entomology, International.
- (1830). "Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten". Sechster Theil. Schulz.
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