Xylophagidae

Taxonavigation

Familia: Xylophagidae
Subfamiliae: Xylophaginae – Coenomyiinae

Name

Xylophagidae Fallén, 1810

Placed on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology by Opinion 2429.

References

• Fallén, C.F. 1810. Specim. entomolog. novam Diptera disponendi methodum exhibens. Berlingianus, Lundae [= Lund]. 26 p. OCLC: 13877383 Reference page. 
• Fachin, D.A. 2016. FAMILY XYLOPHAGIDAE. In Wolff, M.I., Nihei, S.S. & Carvalho, C.J.B. de (eds.), Catalogue of Diptera of Colombia. Zootaxa 4122(1): 302–305. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.24. Reference page. 
• ICZN 2018. Opinion 2429 (Case 3717) – Xylophagidae Purchon, 1941 (Mollusca, Bivalvia): emended to Xylophagaidae to remove homonymy with Xylophagidae Fallén, 1810 (Insecta, Diptera). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 75(1): 297–299. DOI: 10.21805/bzn.v75.a066 . PDF. Reference page. 
• Nagatomi, A. 1984: Male genitalia of the lower Brachycera (Diptera). Beiträge zur Entomologie, 34(1): 99–157. [not seen]
• Nagatomi, A. 1985: Redescription of Heterostomus curvipalpis (Diptera, Heterostomidae) and some notes on my paper of the male genitalia of the lower Brachycera (Diptera). Kontyû, Tokyo, 53(4): 699–710.
• Nagatomi, A.; Liu, N. 1995: Spermatheca and female terminalia of Pantophthalmidae and Xylophagidae s. lat. (Diptera). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 88(5): 603–626.
• Pujol-Luz, J.R. 2019. A new species of the genus Rachicerus Walker (Diptera: Xylophagidae), with notes on Messias Carrera’s 1940 and 1945 types housed in Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo and in Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Zootaxa 4668(1): 126–134. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.1.8 Reference page. 

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