Jump to content

Coelopa

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Coelopa
Coelopa frigida
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Coelopidae
Subfamily: Coelopinae
Tribe: Coelopini
Genus: Coelopa
Meigen, 1830

Coelopa is a genus of kelp flies in the family Coelopidae. There are about 14 described species in Coelopa.[1][2][3]

Species

[edit]

These 12 species belong to the genus Coelopa:[4]

Coelopa frigida

[edit]

Coelopa frigida is one of the most widely distribute species of seaweed fly. This species is found on the shorelines of the temperate Northern Hemisphere. Often confused for the morphologically similar Coelopa nebularum and Coelopa pilipes. C. frigida feeds primarily on seaweed and stay around these habitats.[6]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Coelopa Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  2. ^ "Coelopa". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  3. ^ Mathis, Wayne N.; McAlpine, David K. (2011). "A Catalog and Conspectus on the Family Coelopidae (Diptera: Schizophora)". In Brake, Irina; Thompson, F. Christian (eds.). Contributions to the Systema Dipterorum (Insecta: Diptera). Myia. Vol. 12. pp. 171–205. hdl:10088/18924. ISBN 978-954-642-599-7.
  4. ^ Cresson, E. T. Jr (1914). "Descriptions of new North American acalyptrate Diptera--I". Entomological News, and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 25. Philadelphia: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: 457–460. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  5. ^ "Coelopa frigida", Wikipedia, 2019-11-06, retrieved 2019-11-19

Further reading

[edit]