''Anepsiomyia'' is a genus of

flies Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advanced ...

in the family

Dolichopodidae Dolichopodidae, the long-legged flies, are a large, cosmopolitan family of true flies with more than 7,000 described species in about 230 genera. The genus ''Dolichopus'' is the most speciose, with some 600 species. Dolichopodidae generally are ...

. It contains only one extant species from

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, '' A. flaviventris'', as well as two fossil species from the

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and

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. The genus was originally known as ''Anepsius'', named by

Hermann Loew Friedrich Hermann Loew (19 July 1807 – 21 April 1879) was a German entomologist who specialised in the study of Diptera, an order of insects including flies, mosquitoes, gnats and midges. He described many world species and was the first specia ...

in 1857. Later,

Mario Bezzi Mario Bezzi (1 August 1868, in Milan – 14 January 1927, in Turin) was an Italian professor of zoology at the University of Turin. He was also director of the Turin Museum of Natural History (Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali (Regional Museum of ...

found it to be preoccupied by the beetle genus ''Anepsius'' (LeConte, 1851), and renamed it to ''Anepsiomyia'' in 1902.

Species

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Anepsiomyia atterraneus ''Anepsiomyia'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It contains only one extant species from Europe, '' A. flaviventris'', as well as two fossil species from the Eocene of Russia and Belarus. The genus was originally known as ''Ane ...

'' Nazaraw, 1994 *''

Anepsiomyia flaviventris ''Anepsiomyia flaviventris'' is a species of fly in the family Dolichopodidae. It is found in Northwestern and central Europe, as well as in Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is ...

'' ( Meigen, 1824) *†''

Anepsiomyia planipedia ''Anepsiomyia'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It contains only one extant species from Europe, '' A. flaviventris'', as well as two fossil species from the Eocene of Russia and Belarus. The genus was originally known as ''Ane ...

'' (Meunier, 1907) (Synonym: †''A. planipedius'' (Meunier, 1907), a ''

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'')

References

Dolichopodidae genera Sympycninae Taxa named by Mario Bezzi Diptera of Europe {{Dolichopodidae-stub