Asioligochaetus
Asioligochaetus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It contains only one species, Asioligochaetus vlasovi, which is distributed in Central Asia. The genus was originally proposed as a subgenus of Medetera by Oleg Negrobov in 1966. Because of its peculiar combination of characters, it was raised to genus rank by Igor Grichanov in 2009.[1]
| Asioligochaetus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Dolichopodidae |
| Subfamily: | Medeterinae |
| Tribe: | Medeterini |
| Genus: | Asioligochaetus Negrobov, 1966 |
| Species: | A. vlasovi |
| Binomial name | |
| Asioligochaetus vlasovi (Stackelberg, 1937) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Oligochaetus vlasovi Stackelberg, 1937 | |
References
- Grichanov, I. Ya. (2009). "Review of the genus Dolichophorus Lichtward, 1902 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae)" (PDF). Far Eastern Entomologist (201): 1–16.
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