''Mascaromyia'' 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 ...
, endemic to the western Indian Ocean islands. It is named after the main distribution of the genus, the islands of the submarine
Mascarene Plateau
The Mascarene Plateau is a submarine plateau in the Indian Ocean, north and east of Madagascar. The plateau extends approximately , from Seychelles in the north to Réunion in the south. The plateau covers an area of over of shallow water, wi ...
, combining it with "myia" (the
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
word for fly).
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Species
* '' Mascaromyia albitarsis'' (Parent
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, 1935)
* '' Mascaromyia alexisi'' Grichanov, 2004Parent
A parent is a caregiver of the offspring in their own species. In humans, a parent is the caretaker of a child (where "child" refers to offspring, not necessarily age). A ''biological parent'' is a person whose gamete resulted in a child, a male t ...
, 1932)
* '' Mascaromyia dytei'' Grichanov, 1996
* '' Mascaromyia frolovi'' Grichanov, 1996
* '' Mascaromyia grandicaudata'' (Lamb, 1922)
* '' Mascaromyia grimaldii'' Grichanov, 2004Parent
A parent is a caregiver of the offspring in their own species. In humans, a parent is the caretaker of a child (where "child" refers to offspring, not necessarily age). A ''biological parent'' is a person whose gamete resulted in a child, a male t ...
, 1939)
* '' Mascaromyia michaeli'' Grichanov, 2004
References
Sciapodinae
Dolichopodidae genera
Diptera of Africa
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