Liancalus Decolor
''Liancalus'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It contains at least 21 species distributed worldwide except in Australasia and Oceania. The genus includes some of the largest species in the family, with body length approaching 12 mm in some species. Nomenclature ''Liancalus'' Loew, 1857 is a replacement name for ''Anoplomerus'' Rondani, 1856, which was preoccupied by a beetle genus. However, the name ''Liancalus'' is threatened by a change in type species of ''Anoplomerus'' from "''Hydrophorus Regius'' Fabr." (now '' Liancalus virens'' ( Scopoli, 1763)) to "''Hydrophorus Notatus'' Meig." (now '' Scellus notatus'' (Fabricius, 1781)), made in an overlooked unpaginated corrigendum on the last page of Rondani, 1856, which would make ''Liancalus'' a synonym of '' Scellus''. An application to the ICZN was made to conserve the names ''Liancalus'' and ''Scellus'' by designating ''Dolichopus regius'' Fabricius, 1805 as the type species of ''Anoplomerus''. This was ...
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Lianculus Virens
''Liancalus virens'' is a species of fly Flies are insects of the Order (biology), order Diptera, the name being derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwing ... in the family Dolichopodidae. References Hydrophorinae Insects described in 1763 Taxa named by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli {{Dolichopodidae-stub ...
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