Fannia (fly)

Fannia
Lesser house fly, Fannia canicularis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Fanniidae
Genus: Fannia
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830[1]
Type species
Fannia saltatrix[2]
Synonyms
Fannia canicularis, larva

Fannia is a very large genus of approximately 288 species of flies. The genus was originally described by the French entomologist Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy in 1830. A number of species were formerly placed in the genus Musca.[3]

  1. ^ a b 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.
  2. ^ Coquillett, D.W. (1901). "Types of anthomyid genera". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 9 (3). New York: The New York Entomological Society: 134–146. JSTOR 25002949.
  3. ^ Rozkosny, Rudolf; Gregor, František; Pont, Adrian C. (1997). The European Fanniidae (Diptera). Acta Scientiarum Natura Lium Academiae Scienti Arum Bohemicae Brno. Vol. 31. Brno, Czech Republic: Institute of Landscape Ecology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. pp. 1–80.