Swammerdamella
Enderlein, 1912
Species Guides
6Swammerdamella is a of minute black scavenger flies in the Scatopsidae (Diptera). The genus was established by Enderlein in 1912 and is distributed across the western Palaearctic, with records from Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Sweden) and recent first records from Mexico. The genus includes at least one newly described , S. grogani, from southeastern Mexico.
Pronunciation
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Distribution
Western Palaearctic: Denmark, Norway, Sweden. First recorded in Mexico (southeastern region) with description of S. grogani.
Similar Taxa
- ColobostemaBoth belong to Scatopsidae and were described together in the same taxonomic paper from Mexico; they share similar minute body plans typical of the
- NematopogonSimilar name but belongs to Lepidoptera (Adelidae), not Diptera; easily distinguished by order-level characteristics including wing structure and
Sources and further reading
- BugGuide
- Wikipedia
- GBIF taxonomy match
- iNaturalist taxon
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Catalogue of Life
- New records of Scatopsidae (Diptera) from southeastern Mexico, and descriptions of new species of Swammerdamella Enderlein and Colobostema Enderlein
- The genome sequence of the Large Longhorn, Nematopogon swammerdamella (Linnaeus, 1758).