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Genus of flies From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Apsona is a genus of small-headed flies. It contains only one species, Apsona muscaria, which is endemic to New Zealand.[2] It is very similar to the North American species Eulonchus smaragdinus.[3]
Apsona | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Acroceridae |
Subfamily: | Panopinae |
Genus: | Apsona Westwood, 1876[1] |
Species: | A. muscaria |
Binomial name | |
Apsona muscaria | |
A second species, Apsona caerulea, was described from Brazil by Enrico Brunetti in 1926, but its true placement is not clear.[3] In a 1957 PhD thesis by Evert I. Schlinger, Apsona caerulea was transferred to the genus Lasia.[4] Because the dissertation is considered to be unpublished according to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, this nomenclatural act is not valid.
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