Piezura

Taxobox | name = "Piezura"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Hexapoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota|
ordo = Diptera
subordo = Brachycera
infraordo = Muscomorpha
zoosectio = Schizophora
zoosubsectio = Calyptratae
superfamilia = Muscoidea
familia = Fanniidae
genus = "Piezura"
genus_authority = Róndani, 1866
synonyms = *"Platycoenosia" Strobl
*"Choristomma" Stein

"Piezura" is a small genus of small flies of the family Fanniidae. Distribution is mostly restricted to the Holarctic biogeographic region. [cite book|author=Moores, A. Savage, J|year=2005 |title=A taxonomic revision of Piezura Rondani (Diptera: Fanniidae)|pages=41-59 pp|publisher=Zootaxa 1096] Two species, "P. boletorum" and "P. graminicola" are found in Europe. [cite book|author=Rozkosny, R.; Gregor, F.; Pont, A.C.|year=1997 |title=The European Fanniidae (Diptera)|pages=80 pp|publisher=Institute of Landscape Ecology] . Unlike the other Fanniidae, "Piezura" have arista.

pecies

*"P. boletorum" (Róndani, 1866)
*"P. graminicola" (Zetterstedt, 1846)
*"P. nearctica" Chillcott, 1961
*"P. nigrigenus" Nishida, 1975
*"P. pardalina" Róndani, 1866
*"P. pardalina shanxiensis" Xue, 1999

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