Pieza

Genus of flies

Pieza
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Mythicomyiidae
Subfamily: Mythicomyiinae
Genus: Pieza
Evenhuis, 2002
Type species
Mythicomyia angusta
Melander, 1961

Pieza is a genus of flies in the family Mythicomyiidae. Its species are found in North America, South America, and the West Indies. The genus was named by Neal Evenhuis in 2002. Evenhuis included the following eleven species, transferring four from Mythicomyia, in his initial circumscription:

  • P. agnastis (Hall, 1976) — Chile (Maule, Santiago)[1]
  • P. angusta (Melander, 1961) — United States (California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas) and Mexico (Baja California, Jalisco, Sonora, Tamaulipas)[2][3]
  • P. deresistans Evenhuis, 2002 — northern Venezuela[4]
  • †P. dominicana Evenhuis, 2002 — Dominican amber, Miocene[5]
  • P. flavitibia Evenhuis, 2002 — northern Venezuela[6]
  • P. kake Evenhuis, 2002 — Brazil (Minas Gerais)[7]
  • P. minuta (Greene, 1924) — United States (Arizona, California, New Mexico) and Mexico (Baja California Sur, Sonora)[8][9]
  • P. ostenta (Melander, 1961) — United States (Arizona, California, Colorado, Texas, Utah) and Mexico (Baja California Sur, Sonora)[10][11]
  • P. pi Evenhuis, 2002 — Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, Mexico (Morelos)[12]
  • P. rhea Evenhuis, 2002 — United States (Florida)[13]
  • P. sinclairi Evenhuis, 2002 — Curaçao, Dominican Republic; introduced to Galápagos Islands[14]

As of 2018[update], Pieza still consists of these eleven species.[15]

References

  1. ^ Evenhuis (2002), pp. 5–6.
  2. ^ Evenhuis (2002), pp. 6–9.
  3. ^ Melander (1961), pp. 180–181.
  4. ^ Evenhuis (2002), pp. 9–10.
  5. ^ Evenhuis (2002), pp. 10–12.
  6. ^ Evenhuis (2002), pp. 12–13.
  7. ^ Evenhuis (2002), pp. 13–14.
  8. ^ Evenhuis (2002), pp. 14–17.
  9. ^ Greene (1924), p. 62.
  10. ^ Evenhuis (2002), pp. 17–19.
  11. ^ Melander (1961), p. 236.
  12. ^ Evenhuis (2002), pp. 19–21.
  13. ^ Evenhuis (2002), pp. 21–22.
  14. ^ Evenhuis (2002), pp. 22–25.
  15. ^ Pape, Thomas; Thompson, F. Christian (13 June 2013). "Systema Dipterorum". 1.5. Natural History Museum of Denmark. Retrieved 28 September 2018.

Works cited

  • Evenhuis, Neal L. (2002). "Pieza, a new genus of microbombyliids from the New World (Diptera: Mythicomyiidae)". Zootaxa. 36 (1): 1–28. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.36.1.1.
  • Greene, Charles T. (1924). "New Species of Mythicomyia and its Relationship with a New Genus (Diptera)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 26 (3): 60–64.
  • Melander, Axel Leonard (1960) [Published 1961]. "The Genus Mythicomyia (Diptera: Bombyliidae)". The Wasmann Journal of Biology. 18 (2): 161–261.
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