Stylospania is a genus of snipe flies of the family Rhagionidae. The genus is based on one single male specimen collected from Samar in the Philippines. It bears most of the features found in Chrysopilus, but with its stylate flagellum. The female of the genus is completely unknown. Stylospania lancifera is a delicate little fly of 4.5 mm.[2]

Stylospania
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Rhagionidae
Subfamily: Chrysopilinae
Genus: Stylospania
Frey, 1954[1]
Type species
Stylospania lancifera
Frey, 1954[1]

Distribution edit

Philippines.

Species edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Frey, R. (1954). "Studien über ostasiatische Dipteren. III. Rhachiceridae, Rhagionidae, Hilarimorphidae". Notul. entomol. 34: 1–25.
  2. ^ Kerr, Peter H. (2010). "Phylogeny and classification of Rhagionidae, with implications for Tabanomorpha (Diptera: Brachycera)". Zootaxa. 2592 (1): 1–133.