''Beaopterus'' is a genus of
kelp fly
Kelp fly is one common name of species of flies in a number of families of "true flies" or Diptera. They generally feed on stranded and rotting seaweed, particularly kelp in the wrack zone. When conditions are suitable they are very numerous and ...
in the family
Coelopidae
The Coelopidae or kelp flies are a family of Acalyptratae flies (order Diptera), they are sometimes also called seaweed flies, though both terms are used for a number of seashore Diptera. Fewer than 40 species occur worldwide. The family is fo ...
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Species
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Beaopterus philpotti
''Beaopterus'' is a genus of kelp fly in the family Coelopidae
The Coelopidae or kelp flies are a family of Acalyptratae flies (order Diptera), they are sometimes also called seaweed flies, though both terms are used for a number of seashor ...
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( Malloch, 1933)
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Beaopterus robustus''
Lamb, 1909
References
Coelopidae
Sciomyzoidea genera
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