Biology:Babindella

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Short description: Genus of Dolichopodid flies from Australia

Babindella
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Babindellinae
Bickel, 1987[1]
Genus: Babindella
Bickel, 1987
Type species
Babindella physoura
Bickel, 1987

Babindella is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae from Australia .[2] It is the only genus in the subfamily Babindellinae, and is named after Babinda, the type locality.[1] According to Grichanov (2018), there may be no basis for a separate subfamily for Babindella, which is considered to be related to several genera of Medeterinae such as Udzungwomyia.[3]

Species

The genus contains two species:[1]

  • Babindella physoura Bickel, 1987
  • Babindella whianensis Bickel, 1987

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Bickel, D. J. (1987). "Babindellinae, a new subfamily of Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from Australia, with a discussion of symmetry in the dipteran male postabdomen". Entomologica Scandinavica 18 (1): 97–103. doi:10.1163/187631287X00061. ISSN 1399-560X. 
  2. Grichanov, Igor Ya. (2017). "Alphabetic list of generic and specific names of predatory flies of the epifamily Dolichopodoidae (Diptera). 2nd ed.". Plant Protection News, Supplements (St.Petersburg: All-Union Research Institute of Plant Protection (VISR)) (23). doi:10.5281/zenodo.884863. http://vizr.spb.ru/assets/docs/vestnik/sup/Grichanov%202017%20Dolibank-sec.pdf. 
  3. Grichanov, I. Ya. (2018). "A new genus and species of subfamily Medeterinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Tanzania". Far Eastern Entomologist 350 (350): 9–16. doi:10.25221/fee.350.2. http://www.biosoil.ru/Files/FEE/00000909.pdf. Retrieved 2023-08-25. 

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