Ngirhaphium

Ngirhaphium is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.[1][2] It is known from mangroves in Singapore and Thailand. The genus is named after Prof. Dr. Peter Ng, from the National University of Singapore, combined with Rhaphium, the name of a related genus.[1]

Ngirhaphium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Rhaphiinae
Genus: Ngirhaphium
Evenhuis & Grootaert, 2002[1]
Type species
Ngirhaphium murphyi
Evenhuis & Grootaert, 2002[1]

Species
  • Ngirhaphium caeruleum Grootaert & Puniamoorthy, 2014[3]
  • Ngirhaphium chutamasae Samoh, Boonrotpong & Grootaert, 2015[4]
  • Ngirhaphium meieri Samoh & Grootaert in Samoh, Satasook & Grootaert, 2019[5]
  • Ngirhaphium murphyi Evenhuis & Grootaert, 2002[1]
  • Ngirhaphium sivasothii Grootaert & Puniamoorthy, 2014[3]
  • Ngirhaphium thaicum Samoh & Grootaert in Samoh, Satasook & Grootaert, 2019[5]

References
  1. Evenhuis, Neal. L.; Grootaert, Patrick (2002). "Annotated checklist of the Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of Singapore, with descriptions of a new genus and new species" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 50 (2): 301–316. ISSN 0217-2445. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
  2. Yang, D.; Zhu, Y.; Wang, M.; Zhang, L. (2006). World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera). Beijing: China Agricultural University Press. pp. 1–704. ISBN 9787811171020.
  3. Grootaert, Patrick; Puniamoorthy, Jayanthi (2014). "Revision of Ngirhaphium (Insecta: Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with the description of two new species from Singapore's mangroves" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 62: 146–160.
  4. Samoh, Abdulloh; Boonrotpong, Singtoe; Grootaert, Patrick (2015). "Ngirhaphium Evenhuis & Grootaert from southern Thailand (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) with the description of a new species". Zootaxa. 3946 (1): 125–132. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3946.1.6. PMID 25947677.
  5. Samoh, Abdulloh; Satasook, Chutamas; Grootaert, Patrick (2019). "NGS-barcodes, haplotype networks combined to external morphology help to identify new species in the mangrove genus Ngirhaphium Evenhuis & Grootaert, 2002 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Rhaphiinae) in Southeast Asia". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 67: 640–659. doi:10.26107/RBZ-2019-0046.


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