Limnellia

Limnellia is a genus of shore flies in the family Ephydridae. There are at least 20 described species in Limnellia.[1][2][3][4]

Limnellia
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Ephydridae
Subfamily:	Ephydrinae
Tribe:	Scatellini
Genus:	Limnellia Malloch, 1925
Type species
Limnellia maculipennis Malloch, 1925
Synonyms
Stictoscatella Collin, 1930 Eustigoptera Cresson, 1930

Species

These 22 species belong to the genus Limnellia:

• L. anderssoni Mathis, 1978 ^{i c g}[5]
• L. anna Cresson, 1935 ^{i c g b}
• L. balioptera Mathis, 1978 ^{i c g}[5]
• L. fallax (Czerny, 1903) ^{c g}
• L. flavifrontis Costa, Savaris, Marinoni & Mathis, 2016[6]
• L. flavitarsis Zhang & Yang, 2009 ^g[7]
• L. helmuti Hollmann-Schirrmacher & Zatwarnicki, 1995[8] ^{c g}
• L. huachuca Mathis, 1978 ^{i c g}[5]
• L. itatiaia Mathis, 1980 ^{c g}
• L. lactea Mathis, 1978 ^{i c g}[5]
• L. lecocercus Mathis, 1978 ^{i c g}[5]
• L. luchunensis Zhang & Yang, 2009 ^g[7]
• L. maculipennis Malloch, 1925 ^{c g}
• L. minima Canzoneri & Meneghini, 1969 ^{c g}
• L. picta Canzoneri & Meneghini, 1969 ^{c g}
• L. quadrata (Fallén, 1813) ^{i c g}
• L. rainier Mathis and Zack, 1980 ^{i c g}
• L. sejuncta (Loew, 1863) ^{i c g}
• L. stenhammari (Zetterstedt, 1846) ^{i c g}
• L. sticta Mathis, 1978 ^{i c g}[5]
• L. surturi Andersson, 1971 ^g[9]
• L. turneri Mathis, 1978 ^{i c g}[5]
• L. vounitis Costa, Savaris, Marinoni & Mathis, 2016[6]

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]

References

1. "Limnellia Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
2. "Browse Limnellia". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
3. "Limnellia". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
4. "Limnellia Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
5. Mathis, Wayne N. (1978). "A revision of the Nearctic species of Limnellia Malloch (Diptera: Ephydridae)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 9 (1): 250–293.
6. Costa, Daniel N. R.; Savaris, Marcoandre; Marinoni, Luciane; Mathis, Wayne N. (2016). "Two new, brachypterous Limnellia species from the Venezuelan Andes (Diptera: Ephydridae)". Zootaxa. Auckland, New Zealand.: Magnolia Press. 4144 (3): 301–315. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4144.3.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 27470858. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
7. Zhang, Junhua; Ding, Yang (2009). "Species of the genus Limnellia from China (Diptera: Ephydridae)". Zootaxa. Auckland, New Zealand.: Magnolia Press. 2308: 58–64. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2308.1.4. ISSN 1175-5334.
8. Hollmann‐Schirrmacher, Volker; Zatwarnicki, Tadeusz (1995). "A New Species of Limnellia from the Azores Islands (Diptera: Ephydridae)". Aquatic Insects International Journal of Freshwater Entomology. 17 (2): 77–82. doi:10.1080/01650429509361575.
9. Andersson, Hugo (1971). "The European species of Limnellia (Dipt., Ephydridae)". Insect Systematics & Evolution. 2 (1): 53–59. doi:10.1163/187631271x00059.

Further reading

• McAlpine, J. F.; Petersen, B. V.; Shewell, G. E.; Teskey, H. J.; Vockeroth, J. R.; Wood, D. M., eds. (1987). Manual of Nearctic Diptera, Volume II. Agriculture Canada, Research Branch. ISBN 978-0-660-10731-8.

External links

• Media related to Limnellia at Wikimedia Commons