Machaerium (fly)

Machaerium is a genus of fly in the family Dolichopodidae.[3]

Machaerium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Suborder:	Brachycera
Infraorder:	Asilomorpha
Superfamily:	Empidoidea
Family:	Dolichopodidae
Subfamily:	Hydrophorinae
Genus:	Machaerium Haliday, 1832
Type species
Machaerium maritimae Haliday, 1832[1]
Synonyms
Smiliotus Loew, 1857[2]

Species

• Machaerium maritimae Haliday, 1832[1]
• Machaerium sordidum Becker, 1908[4]
• Machaerium thinophilum (Loew, 1857)[2]

Machaerium henanense Yang & Grootaert, 1999[5] has been renamed to Nepalomyia hui Yang & Wang, 2006[3]

References

1. Haliday, A. H. (1832). "The characters of two new dipterous genera, with indications of some generic subdivisions and several undescribed species of Dolichopodidae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 5: 350–368, pl. 15.
2. Loew, Hermann (1857). "Neue Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Dipteren. Funfter Beitrag". Progr. K. Realschule Meseritz: 1–56.
3. Yang, D.; Zhu, Y.; Wang, M.; Zhang, L. (2006). World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera). Beijing: China Agricultural University Press. pp. 1–704. ISBN 9787811171020.
4. Becker, T. (1908). "Dipteren der Kanarischen Inseln". Mitteilungen aus dem zoologischen Museum in Berlin. Berlin. 4: 1–180, 4 pls. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
5. Yang, D.; Grootaert, P. (1999). "New and little known species of Dolichopodidae from China (V)" (PDF). Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique. Entomologie. 69: 215–232.