Limnophorini Explained

The Limnophorini are a tribe of flies, belonging to the family Muscidae. Although the name-giving genus is Limnophora, this was actually described only after the more characteristic and easily recognized Lispe.

Genera

Genera are:^[1]

• Agenamyia Albuquerque, 1953 ^[2]
• Albertinella Couri & Carvalho, 2005 ^[2]
• Drepanocnemis Stein, 1911 ^[2]
• Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
• Lispe Latreille, 1796
• Lispoides Malloch, 1917^[2]
• Pachyceramyia Albuquerque, 1955 ^[2]
• Rhabdotoptera Stein, 1919 ^[2]
• Spilogona Schnabl, 1911
• Syllimnophora Speiser, 1923 ^[2]
• Tetramerinx Berg, 1898^[2]
• Thaumasiochaeta Stein, 1911^[2]
• Villeneuvia Schnabl & Dziedzicki, 1911

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jere . Kahanpää . Draft Catalogue of Finnish Flies (Diptera: Brachycera) - Muscidae. . 2007 . 2008-04-22 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070503034713/http://www.elisanet.fi/~d625473/diptera/list/online/node95.html . 2007-05-03 .
2. De Carvalho . C.J.B. . Couri, M.S. . Pont, A.C. . Pamplona, D. . Lopes, S.M. . 2005 . A Catalogue of the Muscidae (Diptera) of the Neotropical Region . Zootaxa . 860 . 1–282 . Magnolia Press . Auckland, New Zealand . 1175-5334 . PDF Adobe Acrobat . 2009-10-18 .