Apsona is a genus of small-headed flies. It contains only one species, Apsona muscaria, which is endemic to New Zealand.[2] It is very similar to the North American species Eulonchus smaragdinus.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Acroceridae |
| Subfamily: | Panopinae |
| Genus: | Apsona Westwood, 1876[1] |
| Species: | A. muscaria
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| Apsona muscaria | |
A second species, Apsona caerulea, was described from Brazil by Enrico Brunetti in 1926, but its true placement is not clear.[3] In a 1957 PhD thesis by Evert I. Schlinger, Apsona caerulea was transferred to the genus Lasia.[4] Because the dissertation is considered to be unpublished according to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, this nomenclatural act is not valid.
References
edit- ^ a b Westwood, J. O. (1876). "Notae Dipterologicae. No. 3.— Descriptions of new genera and species of the family Acroceridae". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1876: 507–518.
- ^ Winterton, S. L. (2012). "Review of Australasian spider flies (Diptera, Acroceridae) with a revision of Panops Lamarck". ZooKeys (172): 7–75. Bibcode:2012ZooK..172....7W. doi:10.3897/zookeys.172.1889. PMC 3307363. PMID 22448114.
- ^ a b Paramonov, S.J. (1955). "New Zealand Cyrtidae (Diptera) and the problem of the Pacific Island fauna". Pacific Science. 9 (1): 16–25. hdl:10125/8835.
- ^ Schlinger, Evert Irving (1957). A generic revision and catalogue of the Acroceridae (PhD). University of California. hdl:2027/uc1.x28675.
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