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genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
''Pogonota'' are small to medium sized
predatory
Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not kill th ...
flies
Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advanced m ...
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Species
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P. barbata''
( Zetterstedt, 1838)
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P. gilvipes''
( Loew, 1863)
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P. immunda''
( Zetterstedt, 1838)
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P. nigricans''
( Loew, 1873)
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P. pallida''
Malloch, 1931
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P. sahlbergi''
(Becker
Becker () is one of the German-language surnames, along with Bäcker and Baecker, that derive from the root, which refers to baking. The surname began as a name for a baker (and thus his family). In northern Germany it can also derive from the ...
, 1900)
References
Scathophagidae
Schizophora genera
Taxa named by Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt
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