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Afrohercostomus

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Afrohercostomus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Dolichopodinae
Tribe: Dolichopodini
Genus: Afrohercostomus
Grichanov, 2010[1]
Type species
Hercostomus straeleni
Vanschuytbroeck, 1951

Afrohercostomus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.[2] Many of the species were formerly from "Hercostomus Group I" (or the "Hercostomus" straeleni group), one of three groups of Afrotropical Hercostomus species created by Igor Grichanov in 1999.[3]

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Grichanov, I. Ya. (2010). "A new genus of Dolichopodini from Tropical Africa (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". International Journal of Dipterological Research. 21 (3): 183–194.
  2. ^ Grichanov, Igor Ya. (2018). "An annotated catalogue of afrotropical Dolichopodoidae (Diptera)". Plant Protection News, Supplements (25). St.Petersburg: All-Union Research Institute of Plant Protection (VISR). doi:10.5281/zenodo.1187006.
  3. ^ Grichanov, I. Ya. (2011). "A key to the Afrotropical genera of the subfamily Dolichopodinae with descriptions of new taxa (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Far Eastern Entomologist (234): 1–33. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
  4. ^ a b Grichanov, Igor Ya. (1999). "Afrotropical species of the genus Hercostomus Loew (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". International Journal of Dipterological Research. 10 (1): 7–44.
  5. ^ Grichanov, Igor Ya. (2004). "Review of Afrotropical Dolichopodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Plant Protection News, Supplements. St.Petersburg: All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection RAAS: 1–244. ISSN 1815-3682.