Limnellia Explained

Limnellia is a genus of shore flies in the family Ephydridae.^[1]

Species

• L. anderssoni Mathis, 1978^[2]
• L. anna Cresson, 1935^[3]
• L. balioptera Mathis, 1978^[2]
• L. fallax (Czerny, 1903)

^{c g}

• L. flavifrontis Costa, Savaris, Marinoni & Mathis, 2016^[4]
• L. flavitarsis Zhang & Yang, 2009

^g[5]

• L. helmuti Hollmann-Schirrmacher & Zatwarnicki, 1995^[6]

^{c g}

• L. huachuca Mathis, 1978^[2]
• L. itatiaia Mathis, 1980^[7]
• L. lactea Mathis, 1978^[2]
• L. lecocercus Mathis, 1978^[2]
• L. luchunensis Zhang & Yang, 2009^[5]
• L. maculipennis Malloch, 1925
• L. minima Canzoneri & Meneghini, 1969^[8]
• L. picta Canzoneri & Meneghini, 1969^[8]
• L. quadrata (Fallén, 1813)^[9]
• L. rainier Mathis and Zack, 1980

^{i c g}

• L. sejuncta (Loew, 1863)

^{i c g}

• L. stenhammari (Zetterstedt, 1846)

^{i c g}

• L. sticta Mathis, 1978^[2]
• L. surturi Andersson, 1971^[10]
• L. turneri Mathis, 1978^[2]
• L. vounitis Costa, Savaris, Marinoni & Mathis, 2016^[4]

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• Book: Manual of Nearctic Diptera, Volume II. 1987. McAlpine . J. F.. Petersen . B. V.. Shewell . G. E.. Teskey . H. J.. Vockeroth . J. R.. Wood . D. M.. Agriculture Canada, Research Branch. 978-0-660-10731-8.

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 N. . A revision of the Nearctic species of Limnellia Malloch (Diptera: Ephydridae) . Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington . 1978 . 9 . 1 . 250–293.
3. Cresson . E.T. Jr. . Descriptions of genera and species of the dipterous family Ephydridae . Transactions of the American Entomological Society . 1935 . 61 . 345–372 . 1 February 2022.
4. Costa . Daniel N. R. . Savaris . Marcoandre . Marinoni . Luciane . Mathis . Wayne N. . Two new, brachypterous Limnellia species from the Venezuelan Andes (Diptera: Ephydridae) . Zootaxa . 2016 . 4144 . 3 . 301–315 . 9 December 2018 . Magnolia Press . Auckland, New Zealand. . 1175-5334 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4144.3.1. 27470858 . free .
5. Zhang . Junhua . Ding . Yang . Species of the genus Limnellia from China (Diptera: Ephydridae) . Zootaxa . 2009 . 2308 . 58–64 . Magnolia Press . Auckland, New Zealand. . 1175-5334 . 10.11646/zootaxa.2308.1.4.
6. Hollmann-Schirrmacher . Volker . Zatwarnicki . Tadeusz . A New Species of Limnellia from the Azores Islands (Diptera: Ephydridae) . Aquatic Insects . 1995 . 17 . 2 . 77–82 . 10.1080/01650429509361575. 1995AqIns..17...77H .
7. Mathis . W.N. . Studies of Ephydrinae (Diptera: Ephydridae), III: Revision of some Neotropical genera and species . Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology . 1980 . 303 . 303 . 1–50 + i–iv . 10.5479/si.00810282.303 . 30 January 2022.
8. Canzoneri . S. . Meneghini . D. . Sugli Ephydridae e Canaceidae della fauna Etiopica . Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia . 1969 . 19 . 101–185.
9. Fallen . C.F. . Beskrifning ofver nagra i Sverige funna vattenflugor (Hydromyzides) . K. Svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. . 1813 . [ser. 3], 1813 . 240–257.
10. Andersson . Hugo . The European species of Limnellia (Dipt., Ephydridae) . Insect Systematics & Evolution . 1971 . 2 . 1 . 53–59 . 10.1163/187631271x00059.