Brachydeutera Explained

Brachydeutera is a genus of shore flies in the family Ephydridae. There are about 16 described species in the genus Brachydeutera.^[1]

Species

These 16 species belong to the genus Brachydeutera:

• B. adusta Mathis & Ghorpade, 1985^[2]
• B. africana Wirth, 1964^[3]
• B. argentata (Walker, 1852)^[4]
• B. brunnea Wirth, 1964^[3]
• B. congolensis Wirth, 1964^[3]
• B. dentata Mathis & Winkler, 2003^[5]
• B. hardyi Wirth, 1964^[3]
• B. hebes (Cresson, 1926)^[6]
• B. ibari Ninomyia, 1929^[7]
• B. longipes Hendel, 1913^[8]
• B. munroi Cresson, 1939^[9]
• B. neotropica Wirth, 1964^[3]
• B. pleuralis Malloch, 1928^[10]
• B. stuckenbergi Wirth, 1964^[3]
• B. sturtevanti Wirth, 1964^[3]
• B. sydneyensis Malloch, 1924^[11]

Notes and References

1. Mathis . W.N. . Zatwarnicki . T. . World catalog of shore flies (Diptera: Ephydridae) . Memoirs of Entomology, International . 1995 . 4 . 1–423.
2. Mathis . Wayne Neilsen . Ghorpade . K. D. . Studies of Parydrinae (Diptera: Ephydridae), I: A Review of the Genus Brachydeutera Loew from the Oriental, Australian, and Oceanian regions . Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology . 1985 . 1–25 . 25 January 2022.
3. Wirth . Willis W. . A Revision of the Shore Flies of the Genus Brachydeutera Loew (Diptera: Ephydridae) . Annals of the Entomological Society of America . 1964 . 57 . 1 . 3–12 . 10.1093/aesa/57.1.3 .
4. Book: Walker. Frances. Diptera. Part IV, pp. 253-474, pls. 7-8. In [Saunders, W. W. (ed.)], Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Sauders, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. Vol. 1. 1853. Van Voorst. London. 1–474.
5. Mathis . W.N. . Winkler . I.S. . A review of the Neotropical species of Brachydeutera Loew (Diptera: Ephydridae) . Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington . 2003 . 105 . 2 . 407–424 . 25 January 2022.
6. Cresson . E.T. Jr. . Descriptions of New Species of the Dipterous Fam- ily Ephydridae from Hawaii. . Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society . 1926 . 6 . 2 . 275–27 . 25 January 2022.
7. Ninomiya . E. . On a New Species Brachydeutera ibari (Ephydridae) . Oyo Dobutsugaku Zat. . 1929 . 1 . 190–193, 6 figures . Japanese.
8. Hendel . Friedrich Georg . H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute. Acalyptrate Musciden (Dipt.) . Entomologische Mitteilungen . 1913 . 2 . 65–70 . 10.5962/bhl.part.14989 . 25 January 2022. free .
9. Cresson . Ezra Townsend . Description of a New Genus & Ten New Species of Ephydridae, with a Discussion of the Species of the Genus Discomyza (Diptera) . Notulae Naturae of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. . 1939 . 21 . 1–12.
10. Malloch . J.R. . Notes on Australian Diptera, No. xvi . Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales . 1928 . 53 . 343–366 . 25 January 2022.
11. Malloch . J.R. . Notes on Australian Diptera. No. iii . Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales . 1924 . 49 . 329–338 . 25 January 2022.