Orygma

Orygma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
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. ^ a b 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.