Medetera arnaudi

Medetera arnaudi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Genus: Medetera
Species:
M. arnaudi
Binomial name
Medetera arnaudi
Harmston, 1951

Medetera arnaudi is a species of long-legged fly in the family Dolichopodidae. It is known from the Central Valley and Coast Ranges of California. It is named after the entomologist Paul H. Arnaud, Jr., who collected the type specimens.

In Bickel (1985)'s revision of the genus Medetera in the Nearctic realm, M. arnaudi is included as a member of the diadema-veles species group.

References

  1. ↑ Harmston, F. C. (1951). "New species of Dolichopodidae from California and Utah (Diptera)". The Great Basin Naturalist. 11: 11–17. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.22414. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  2. ↑ "Medetera arnaudi Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  3. ↑ "Medetera arnaudi". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  4. ↑ Pollet, Marc A. A.; Brooks, Scott E.; Cumming, Jeffrey M. (2004). "Catalog of the Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of America North of Mexico". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 2004 (283): 1–114. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2004)283<0001:COTDDO>2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/451.
  5. 1 2 Bickel, D. J. (1985). "A revision of the Nearctic Medetera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". Technical Bulletin (1692). United States Department of Agriculture: 1–109. doi:10.22004/ag.econ.309598. ISSN 0082-9811.