Orygma

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Orygma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Sepsidae
Subfamily: Orygmatinae
Genus: Orygma
Meigen, 1830[1]
Species:
O. luctuosum
Binomial name
Orygma luctuosum
Meigen, 1830[1]
Synonyms
  • Eugenacephala Johnson, 1922[2]
  • Psalidomyia Doumerc, 1833

Orygma is a European genus of fly from the family Sepsidae.[3][4][5] The only species is Orygma luctuosum. Larvae live mostly in the wrack zone.[6]

References

  1. Meigen, J.W. (1830). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten. Hamm: Sechster Theil. Schulz. pp. xi + 401 +[3] pp.
  2. Johnson, C.W. (1922). "New genera and species of Diptera". Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History. 5: 21–26. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  3. "Fauna Europaea". European Commission. Archived from the original on August 19, 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
  4. Pont, A.C. (1979). Sepsidae. Diptera (Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects 10/5c). London: Royal Entomological Society of London. pp. 35 pp.
  5. Pont, A.C.; Meier, R. (2002). The Sepsidae (Diptera) of Europe (Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 37). Brill. pp. 198 pp.
  6. Gilburn, Andre S. (July 2012). "Mechanical grooming and beach award status are associated with low strandline biodiversity in Scotland". Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 107: 81–88. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2012.05.004.