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Herina (fly)

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Herina
Herina sp.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Ulidiidae
Subfamily: Otitinae
Tribe: Otitini
Genus: Herina
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830[1]
Type species
Herina liturata

Herina is a genus of flies in the family Ulidiidae. It is possibly the largest genus in the family.[2]

It is a genus of distinctive, small to medium-sized, dark species about 3.5-5.5 mm long, with patterned wings. The head is variably yellowish, reddish, or darkened, whilst the body is either shining black or black dusted with grey.[3] Many are found in marshland or calcareous grassland locations and in coastal wetlands.[4]

Species

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Species include:

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Robineau-Desvoidy, André Jean Baptiste (1830). "Essai sur les myodaires". Mémoires presentés à l'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, par divers savants et lus dans ses assemblées: Sciences, Mathématiques et Physique. 2 (2): 1–813. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d Kameneva, E. P. (2007). "A new species of Herina (Diptera: Ulidiidae) from Switzerland with a key to European species and notes on nomenclature and distribution" (PDF). Vestnik Zoologii. 41 (5): 405–421. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-20.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Clements, David.K.; Merz, Bernhard. (1998). "Key to the genus Herina (Diptera, Ulidiidae) in Britain". Dipterists Digest (Print). second series. 5 (2). Dipterists Forum: 55–67. ISSN 0953-7260.
  4. ^ Clements, David.K. (1997). "Habitat preferences and distributional details: Ulidiids and Platystomatids". Picture-winged Flies Recording Scheme (Print). 1. Dipterists Forum: 3–5.
  5. ^ a b Merz, B. (2002). "A revision of the Herina lugubris species group (Diptera, Ulidiidae, Otitinae), with the description of two new species". Revue suisse de zoologie. 109: 407–431. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.79599. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Fauna Europaea project". Archived from the original on October 15, 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
  7. ^ a b c d e Chandler, Peter J. (1998). Checklists of Insects of the British Isles (New Series) Part 1: Diptera. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. Vol. 12. London: Royal Entomological Society of London. p. 122. ISBN 0-901546-82-8.
  8. ^ Kameneva, E.P. (2006). "East Asian and Papuan species of the genus Herina Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Ulidiidae, Otitinae)". Instrumenta Biodiversitatis (Print). 7: 15–59.