(c) Ian McMillan, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Ian McMillan · cc-by-nc
Panops
Sign in to savePanops is a genus of small-headed flies. It is endemic to Australia and the Papua region of Indonesia. Males and females measure 8.0–12.5 mm and 9.5–14.5 mm, respectively. Their larvae are thought to be endoparasites of spiders in the infraorder Mygalomorphae, a trait shared by most other members of the subfamily Panopinae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderDiptera
- FamilyAcroceridae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 13
- Family
- Acroceridae
- Collections
- AM, NHMUK, WAM
- Recorded in
- Australia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Image
- Panops-baudini-Lamarck-feeding-on-Daviesia-croniniana-F.jpg
Show 5 more facts
- taxon name
- Panops
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Panops
- Commons category
- Panops
- diel cycle
- diurnality
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- Species
- References
Panops is a genus of small-headed flies. It is endemic to Australia and the Papua region of Indonesia. Males and females measure 8.0–12.5 mm and 9.5–14.5 mm, respectively. Their larvae are thought to be endoparasites of spiders in the infraorder Mygalomorphae, a trait shared by most other members of the subfamily Panopinae.
==Species== Panops aurum Winterton, 2012 – Western Australia Panops austrae Neboiss, 1971 – Western Australia Panops baudini Lamarck, 1804 – widely distributed in Australia Panops boharti (Schlinger, 1959) – Indonesia (Papua) Panops conspicuus (Brunetti, 1926) – Western Australia, Victoria Panops danielsi Winterton, 2012 – Queensland Panops grossi (Neboiss, 1971) – South Australia Panops infrequens Glatz, 2023 – South Australia (Kangaroo Island) Panops jade Winterton, 2012 – Queensland Panops schlingeri Winterton, 2012 – Northern Territory
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Panops” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.