Colobaea Explained

Colobaea is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.^[1]

Species

• C. acuticerca Carles-Tolrá, 2008^[2]
• C. americana Steyskal, 1954^[3]
• C. beckeri (Hendel, 1902)
• C. bifasciella (Fallén, 1820)
• C. canadensis Knutson & Orth, 1990
• C. distincta (Meigen, 1830)
• C. eos Rozkosny, 1991
• C. flavipleura Rozkosny, 1991
• C. limbata (Hendel, 1933)
• C. montana Knutson & Orth, 1990
• C. nigroaristata Rozkosny, 1984
• C. occidentalis Knutson, Deeming & Ebejer, 2018^[4]
• C. pectoralis (Zetterstedt, 1847)
• C. punctata (Lundbeck, 1923)

Notes and References

1. Book: Knutson . Lloyd Vernon . Vala . Jean-Claude . Biology of Snail-Killing Sciomyzidae Flies . 2011 . 1–526 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 978-0521867856.
2. Carles-Tolrá . M. . Four new acalyptrate dipterous species from Spain (Diptera: Camillidae, Carnidae and Sciomyzidae) . Heteropterus Revista de Entomología . 2008 . 8 . 2 . 125–130 . 26 November 2018.
3. Steyskal . George C. . Colobaea and Hedria, Two Genera of Sciomyzidae New to America (Diptera: Acalyptratae) . The Canadian Entomologist . 1954 . 86 . 2 . 60–65.
4. Knutson . L.V. . Deeming . J.C. . Ebejer . M.J. . The Snail-killing Flies (Diptera: Sciomyzidae) of West Africa . Zootaxa . 2018 . 4483 . 1 . 67–100.