Minettia

Minettia
Minettia
Minettia longipennis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Lauxaniidae
Subfamily: Lauxaniinae
Genus: Minettia
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
Type species
Minettia nemorosa
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
Subgenera
Synonyms

Prorhaphochaeta Czerny, 1932
Minettia longipennis feeding on grass (video, 1m 17s)

Minettia is a genus of small flies of the family Lauxaniidae. They have almost worldwide distribution, is one of the most species rich genera of the family with slightly less than 100 known species. The Palaearctic is the most diverse with some 56 described species. The genus is divided into 3 subgenera.[1]

The genus is characterized by the grey microtrichose mesonotum, a pair of black spots on the lateroventral side of the scutellum, 6 rows of acrostichal setulae, only one dorsal preapical seta on the midtibia, dark transverse stripes on the abdominal tergites and distinctive genitalia.[1]

Species

  • M. longipennis (Fabricius, 1794)
  • M. desmometopa (de Meijere, 1907)
  • M. fasciata (Fallén, 1826)
  • M. flaviventris (Costa, 1844)
  • M. inusta (Meigen, 1826)
  • M. longiseta (Loew, 1847)
  • M. lupulina (Fabricius, 1787)
  • M. plumicornis (Fallén, 1820)
  • M. rivosa (Meigen, 1826)
  • M. tubifer (Meigen, 1826)
  • M. filia (Becker, 1895)
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References

  1. ^ a b Merz, Bernhard (2004). "Revision of the Minettia fasciata species-group (Diptera, Lauxaniidae)" (PDF). Revue Suisse De Zoologie (Geneva: Muséum d’histoire naturelle) 111 (1): 183–211. http://www.diptera.info/downloads/Merz_2004.pdf. 
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