Dictya

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Antliophora
Ordo: Diptera
Subordo: Brachycera
Infraordo: Muscomorpha
Sectio: Schizophora
Subsectio: Acalyptrata
Superfamilia: Sciomyzoidea

Familia: Sciomyzidae
Genus: Dictya
Species: D. behrmani – ...
Name

Dictya Meigen, 1803

Primary references

Meigen, J. 1803. Versuch einer neuen Gattungseintheilung der europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten. Magazin für Insektenkunde 2: 259–281. BHL Reference page.

Dictya is a genus of marsh flies in the family Sciomyzidae. There are at least 20 described species in Dictya.[1][2]
Species

D. abnormis Steyskal, 1954[3]
D. adjuncta Valley, 1977
D. atlantica Steyskal, 1954[3]
D. atlantica Murphy, 2014[4]
D. bergi Valley, 1977
D. borealis Curran, 1932
D. brimleyi Steyskal, 1954[3]
D. caliente Orth, 1991[5]
D. chihuahua Orth, 1991[5]
D. disjuncta Orth, 1991[5]
D. expansa Steyskal, 1938
D. fisheri Orth, 1991[5]
D. floridensis Steyskal, 1954[3]
D. frontinalis Fisher and Orth, 1969[6]
D. gaigei Steyskal, 1938
D. guatemalana Steyskal, 1954[3]
D. hudsonica Steyskal, 1954[3]
D. incisa Curran, 1932
D. insularis Steyskal, 1954[3]
D. jamaica Orth, 1991[5]
D. knutsomi Orth, 1991[5]
D. laurentiana Steyskal, 1954[3]
D. lobifera Curran, 1932
D. matthewsi Steyskal, 1960
D. mexicana Steyskal, 1954[3]
D. montana Steyskal, 1954[3]
D. neffi Steyskal, 1960
D. orion Orth, 1991[5]
D. orthi Mathis, Knutson & Murphy, 2009[7]
D. oxybeles Steyskal, 1960
D. pechumani Valley, 1977
D. pictipes (Loew, 1859)
D. praecipua Orth, 1991[5]
D. ptyarion Steyskal, 1954[3]
D. sabroskyi Steyskal, 1938
D. sinaloae Orth, 1991[5]
D. steyskali Valley, 1977
D. stricta Steyskal, 1938
D. texensis Curran, 1932
D. umbrarum (Linnaeus, 1758)
D. umbroides Curran, 1932
D. valleyi Orth, 1991[5]
D. veracruz Orth, 1991[5]
D. zacki Orth and Fisher, 1983[5]

References

"Dictya Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
"Dictya Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
Steyskal, G. C. (1954). "The American species of the genus Dictya Meigen (Diptera, Sciomyzidae)". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 47 (3): 511–539. doi:10.1093/aesa/47.3.511.
Murphy, William L. (2014). "Dictya behrmani, a new species of snail-killing fly (Diptera: Sciomyzidae) from Indiana". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 116 (1): 91–97. doi:10.4289/0013-8797.116.1.91. S2CID 84424410. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
Orth, R.E. (1991). "A synopsis of the genus Dictya meigen with ten new species (Diptera : sciomyzidae)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 93 (3): 660–689. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
Fisher, T. W.; Orth, R. E. (1969). "A new Dictya in California, with biological notes (Diptera: Sciomyzidae)". Pan-Pacific Entomologist. 45 (3): 222–228.

Mathis, Wayne N.; Knutson, Lloyd; Murphy, William L (2009). "A new species of snail-killing fly of the genus Dictya Meigen from the Delmarva States (Diptera: Sciomyzidae)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 111 (4): 785–794. doi:10.4289/0013-8797-111.4.785. S2CID 85746356. Retrieved 9 November 2018.