| Limnophora | |
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| Limnophora tigrina | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Muscidae |
| Tribe: | Limnophorini |
| Genus: | Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 |
| Type species | |
| Limnophora palustris Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 | |
Limnophora is a genus of flies, belonging to the family Muscidae. The flies are characterized by silver bands across their thorax. The tribe Limnophorini is named from the genus.
The genus includes the following species:
- Limnophora corvina (Giglio-Tos, 1893)
- Limnophora discreta Stein, 1898
- Limnophora femorata (Malloch, 1913)
- Limnophora garrula (Giglio-Tos, 1893)
- Limnophora groenlandica Malloch, 1920
- Limnophora incrassata Malloch, 1919
- Limnophora invada Huckett, 1966
- Limnophora minuscula (Wulp, 1896)
- Limnophora narona Walker
- Limnophora nigripes (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830)
- Limnophora normata Bigot, 1885
- Limnophora rotundata (Collin, 1930)
- Limnophora sinuata Collin, 1930
- Limnophora uniseta Stein, 1916
References
- ^ Robineau-Desvoidy, André Jean Baptiste (1830). "Essai sur les myodaires". Mémoires presentés à L'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, par divers savants et lus dans ses assemblées: Sciences, Mathématiques et Physique. 2 (2): 1–813. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
- D. W. Coquillett (1901). "Types of anthomyid genera". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 9 (3): 134–146. JSTOR 25002949.
- "Limnophora". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
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