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Genus Leptopa

Leaf-mining scathophagid - Leptopa vittata Leaf-mining scathophagid - Leptopa vittata leaf mine on Helleborine orchid - Leptopa vittata Leaf mine in Goodyera pubescens - Leptopa vittata Leaf mines - Leptopa vittata Leaf mines - Leptopa vittata Pupae - Leptopa vittata Fly - Leptopa vittata
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Calyptratae)
Superfamily Muscoidea
Family Scathophagidae (Dung Flies)
Subfamily Delininae
Genus Leptopa
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Clidogastra (Parallelomma) Strobl, 1894
Parallelomma was synonymized with Leptopa by Ozerov & Krivosheina (2023).
Numbers
One species in North America, more in Europe.
Print References
Ozerov, A. L. and M. G. Krivosheina. 2023. Contribution to the fauna of dung flies (Diptera: Scathophagidae) of Russia with a key to genera and a checklist of the Russian Scathophagidae. Russian Entomological Journal 32(1): 95–122.