Leucopis is a genus of flies in the family Chamaemyiidae. There are at least 20 described species in Leucopis.[1][2] Flies from this genus are used in biological control of adelgids.[3]

Leucopis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Chamaemyiidae
Subfamily: Chamaemyiinae
Tribe: Leucopini
Genus: Leucopis
Meigen, 1830
Type species
Anthomyza griseola
Fallén, 1823

Species edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Leucopis Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Leucopis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  3. ^ Grubin, Sarah M.; Ross, Darrell W.; Wallin, Kimberly F. (1 December 2011). "Prey Suitability and Phenology of Leucopis spp. (Diptera: Chamaemyiidae) Associated With Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (Hemiptera: Adelgidae) in the Pacific Northwest". Environmental Entomology. 40 (6): 1410–1416. doi:10.1603/EN11127.
  4. ^ Williston, Samuel Wendell (1889). "Leucopis bellula, n. sp". Insect Life. 1: 258–259. Retrieved 11 November 2019.

Further reading edit

  • Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.

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