Cyrturella

Cyrturella is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.

Cyrturella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Medeterinae
Tribe: Medeterini
Genus: Cyrturella
Collin, 1952[1]
Type species
Micromorphus albosetosus
Strobl, 1909[2]
Synonyms

Cyrtura Parent, 1938
(nec Jaekel, 1904)[3]

The genus was created by Octave Parent in 1938 for the species Micromorphus albosetosus, and was originally given the name Cyrtura. This name for the genus was already in use by the extinct stem-turtle genus Cyrtura, so Parent's genus was renamed to Cyrturella by James Edward Collin in 1952.

Species

Cyrturella orientalis Hollis, 1964 was moved to Paramedetera.

References
  1. Collin, J. E. (1952). "Two new names in the Dolichopodidae (Diptera)". The Entomologist. 85: 142.
  2. Czerny, L.; Strobl, P. G. (1909). "Spanische Dipteren. III". Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 59: 121–301. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  3. Parent, O. (1938). Diptères Dolichopodidae (PDF). Faune de France. 35. Office Central de Faunistique de la Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles. pp. 1–720. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  4. Grichanov, I.Ya. (2016). "A new species of Cyrturella Collin, 1952 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Egypt" (PDF). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin. 12 (1): 171–173. doi:10.23885/1814-3326-2016-12-1-171-173.


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