Psilopa

Psilopa
Psilopa cf nitidula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Ephydridae
Subfamily: Discomyzinae
Tribe: Psilopini
Genus: Psilopa
Fallen, 1823
Type species
Notiphila nitidula
Fallen, 1823
Synonyms

Psilopa is a genus of flies. The Petroleum fly, the only known insect to develop in naturally occurring crude oil, was once placed in this genus but then transferred elsewhere, as Helaeomyia., but later as Diasemocera petrolei (Coquillett, 1899).

Species

Else for Psilopa bornholmi, Psilopa girschneri, Psilopa leucostoma (Meigen, 1830), Psilopa marginella Psilopa martima see Diasemocera

References

  1. 1 2 3 Fallen, C.F. (1823). Hydromyzides Sveciae. Lundae [= Lund]: Berlingianis. pp. 12pp. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  2. ↑ Mathis, W.N.; Zatwarnicki, T. (1995). "World catalog of shore flies (Diptera: Ephydridae)". Memoirs of Entomology, International. 4: 1–423.
  3. ↑ Zatwarnicki, Tadeusz (October 2018). "Solving the Puzzle of Taxonomic Position of the Petroleum Fly by Resurrection of Diasemocera Bezzi from Psilopa Fallén (Diptera: Ephydridae) with Proposed Specific and Generic Synonymies". Annales Zoologici. 68 (3): 527–552. doi:10.3161/00034541ANZ2018.68.3.012. ISSN 0003-4541.
  4. ↑ Meigen, J.W. (1830). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten. Hamm: Sechster Theil. Schulz. pp. xi + 401 +[3] pp.