Yumbera

Yumbera is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, known from eastern mainland Australia and Tasmania.[2] The generic name is an Australian aboriginal word meaning "fly".[1]

Yumbera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Sympycninae
Genus: Yumbera
Bickel, 1992[1]
Type species
Sympycnus callidus
Parent, 1932

Species
  • Yumbera athertonia Bickel, 1992[1]
  • Yumbera callida (Parent, 1932)[1]
  • Yumbera conica Bickel, 1992[1]
  • Yumbera nudicornis Bickel, 1992[1]
  • Yumbera signata Bickel, 1992[1]
  • Yumbera trisignata Bickel, 2012[3]

References
  1. Bickel, D. J. (1992). "The Australian Sympycninae (Diptera : Dolichopodidae): Introduction and description of a new genus, Yumbera". Invertebrate Taxonomy. 6 (4): 1005–1017. doi:10.1071/IT9921005.
  2. Evenhius, N. L. (17 April 2016). "Family Dolichopodidae". In Evenhius, N. L. (ed.). Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions (online version). Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  3. Bickel, D. J. (2012). "Parallel evolution in Patagonian Pinacocerus and Australian Yumbera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Sympycninae), with the description of new species". The Canadian Entomologist. 144 (1): 52–61. doi:10.4039/tce.2012.7.


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