| Trixoscelis | |
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| Trixoscelis marginella | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Heleomyzidae |
| Genus: | Trixoscelis Rondani, 1856 |
| Type species | |
| Geomyza obscurella Fallén, 1823
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| Synonyms | |
Trixoscelis is a genus of flies in the family Heleomyzidae.[1][2] For the most part they are small to minute flies found in warm semi-arid conditions on sand dunes, dry grasslands or shrubby places. They are widely distributed in the Palaearctic.[3]
- ^ "Fauna Europaea". European Commission. Archived from the original on August 10, 2014. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
- ^ Hackman, Walter (1970). "Trixoscelidae (Diptera) from Southern Spain and Description of a New Trixoscelis Species from Northern Europe". Entomologica Scandinavica. 1 (2). Scandinavian Society of Entomology.: 127–134. doi:10.1163/187631270x00168. ISSN 0013-8711.
- ^ Woźnica, Andrzej J. (2007). "New records of the Turkish Sunflies (Diptera: Trixoscelididae) with description of a new Trixoscelis species". Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum (Entomology). 14–15: 59–64.