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Protodictya

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Protodictya
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Sciomyzidae
Subfamily: Sciomyzinae
Tribe: Tetanocerini
Genus: Protodictya
Malloch, 1933[1]
Type species
Protodictya chilensis

Protodictya is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.[2]

Species

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Malloch, John Russell (1933). "Acalyptrata; Heleomyzidae, Trypetidae, Sciomyzidae, Sapromyzidae". Diptera of Patagonia and South Chile. 6 (4): 177–389.
  2. ^ Knutson, Lloyd Vernon; Vala, Jean-Claude (2011). Biology of Snail-Killing Sciomyzidae Flies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–526. ISBN 978-0521867856.