''Aphantorhaphopsis'' 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 m ...
in the family
Tachinidae
The Tachinidae are a large and variable family of true fly, flies within the insect order Fly, Diptera, with more than 8,200 known species and many more to be discovered. Over 1,300 species have been described in North America alone. Insects in t ...
.
Some consider this to be a subgenus of ''
Siphona'', most European workers seem content that this is a genus in its own right.
They are known from the
Palearctic,
Afrotropical and
Oriental regions.
Species
*''
A. alticola''
(Mesnil, 1953)
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A. angustifrons''
( Malloch, 1930)
*''
A. brunnescens''
( Villeneuve, 1921)
*''
A. crassulata''
(Mesnil, 1953)
*''
A. fera''
(Mesnil, 1954)
*''
A. laboriosa''
(Mesnil, 1957)
*''
A. laticornis''
( Malloch, 1930
*''
A. nigronitens''
(Mesnil, 1954)
*''
A. norma''
( Malloch, 1929)
*''
A. orientalis''
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Places United States
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, 1926
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A. perispoliata''
(Mesnil, 1953) (Synonym: ''A. mallochiana''
(Gardner, 1940))
*''
A. picturata''
(Mesnil, 1977)
*''
A. pudica''
(Mesnil, 1954)
*''
A. samarensis''
( Villeneuve, 1921)
*''
A. selangor''
( Malloch, 1930
*''
A. selecta''
( Pandellé, 1894)
*''
A. siphonoides''
(Strobl
Strobl (or Strobl am Wolfgangsee) is a municipality of the Salzburg-Umgebung District (''Flachgau''), in the northeastern portion of the Austrian state of Salzburg, right on the border with Upper Austria. It comprises the Katastralgemeinden of Aig ...
, 1898)
*''
A. speciosa''
(Mesnil, 1954)
*''
A. starkei''
(Mesnil, 1952)
*''
A. verralli''
(Wainwright, 1928)
*''
A. xanthosoma''
(Mesnil, 1954)
References
Tachininae
Tachinidae genera
Taxa named by Charles Henry Tyler Townsend
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