''Thambemyia'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It known from the

Oriental The Orient is a term for the East in relation to Europe, traditionally comprising anything belonging to the Eastern world. It is the antonym of ''Occident'', the Western World. In English, it is largely a metonym for, and coterminous with, the ...

and Neotropical realms, with a single

Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...

species from

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. Members of the genus live exclusively in the

intertidal zone The intertidal zone, also known as the foreshore, is the area above water level at low tide and underwater at high tide (in other words, the area within the tidal range). This area can include several types of habitats with various species o ...

of rocky shores. ''

Conchopus ''Conchopus'' is a genus of fly, flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is distributed in Japan, China, Taiwan, the Hawaiian Islands, and Wake Island. The species ''Conchopus borealis'' is also an introduced species in North America and South Ame ...

'' is sometimes considered a synonym of ''Thambemyia'', but the former is considered a valid genus by some authors.

Species

Subgenus ''Thambemyia'' Oldroyd, 1956: *''

Thambemyia bisetosa ''Thambemyia'' is a genus of fly, flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It known from the Oriental realm, Oriental and Neotropical realm, Neotropical realms, with a single Palearctic realm, Palearctic species from Japan. Members of the genus live e ...

'' Masunaga, Saigusa & Grootaert, 2005 –

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

(

Lantau Island Lantau Island (also Lantao Island, Lan Tao) is the largest island in Hong Kong, located West of Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula, and is part of the New Territories. Administratively, most of Lantau Island is part of the Islands ...

) *'' Thambemyia bruneiensis'' Masunaga, Saigusa & Grootaert, 2005 –

Brunei Brunei ( , ), formally Brunei Darussalam ( ms, Negara Brunei Darussalam, Jawi alphabet, Jawi: , ), is a country located on the north coast of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Apart from its South China Sea coast, it is completely sur ...

*'' Thambemyia fusariae'' Capellari, 2015 –

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

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Bahia Bahia ( , , ; meaning "bay") is one of the 26 Federative units of Brazil, states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast Region of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population (after São Paulo (sta ...

) *'' Thambemyia hui'' Masunaga, Saigusa & Grootaert, 2005 –

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

(

Fujian Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its capi ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

*'' Thambemyia lopatini'' Grichanov, 2013 –

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

(

Gujarat Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the ninth ...

) *''

Thambemyia pagdeni ''Thambemyia'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It known from the Oriental and Neotropical realms, with a single Palearctic species from Japan. Members of the genus live exclusively in the intertidal zone of rocky shores. ''Co ...

'' Oldroyd, 1956 –

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

( Penang Island),

Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...

(

Phuket Island Phuket (; th, ภูเก็ต, , ms, Bukit or ''Tongkah''; Hokkien:普吉; ) is one of the southern provinces (''changwat'') of Thailand. It consists of the island of Phuket, the country's largest island, and another 32 smaller islands of ...

) Subgenus ''Prothambemyia'' Masunaga, Saigusa & Grootaert, 2005: *''

Thambemyia japonica ''Thambemyia'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It known from the Oriental and Neotropical realms, with a single Palearctic species from Japan. Members of the genus live exclusively in the intertidal zone of rocky shores. ''Co ...

'' Masunaga, Saigusa & Grootaert, 2005 –

( Shikoku,

Kyushu is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands ( i.e. excluding Okinawa). In the past, it has been known as , and . The historical regional name referred to Kyushu and its surroun ...

) If ''

'' is a synonym of ''Thambemyia'', the following species would also be included in the genus: *''Thambemyia abdominalis'' (

Takagi is a Japanese surname meaning "tall tree". Notable people with the surname include: *Akimitsu Takagi (1920–1995), Japanese crime fiction writer *Jon Mamoru Takagi (1942–1984), American martial arts instructor *, Japanese footballer * Hinako T ...

, 1965) *''Thambemyia acrosticalis'' ( Parent, 1937) *''Thambemyia anomalopus'' (

, 1965) *''Thambemyia borealis'' (

, 1965) *''Thambemyia convergens'' (

, 1965) *''Thambemyia corvus'' (

, 1965) *''Thambemyia mammuthus'' (

, 1965) *''Thambemyia nodulata'' (

, 1965) *''Thambemyia poseidonia'' (

, 1965) *''Thambemyia pudica'' (

, 1965) *''Thambemyia recta'' (

, 1965) *''Thambemyia saigusai'' (

, 1965) *''Thambemyia shandongensis'' Zhu, Yang & Masunaga, 2005 *''Thambemyia sigmigra'' (

, 1965) *''Thambemyia signata'' (

, 1965) *''Thambemyia sikokiana'' (

, 1965) *''Thambemyia sinuata'' (

, 1965) *''Thambemyia taivanensis'' (

, 1967) *''Thambemyia uvasima'' (

, 1965)

Species

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