''Leptynoma'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of wormlions in the family
Vermileonidae
The Brachyceran family Vermileonidae (the sole family in the infraorder Vermileonomorpha) is a small family of uncertain affinities and unusual biology. It includes fewer than 80 described species, most of them rare and with restricted distributi ...
.
Species
*''
Leptynoma appendiculata''
( Bezzi, 1926)
*''
Leptynoma hessei''
( Stuckenberg, 1961)
*''
Leptynoma kirkspriggsi''
Stuckenberg, 1998
*''
Leptynoma namaquaensis''
(Stuckenberg, 1960)
*''
Leptynoma sericea''
Westwood, 1876
Species transferred to ''
Perianthomyia'' (formerly a subgenus of ''Leptynoma''):
*''Leptynoma maculata''
(Stuckenberg, 1961)
*''Leptynoma monticola''
Stuckenberg, 2000
*''Leptynoma phantasma''
Stuckenberg, 1996
References
Diptera of Africa
Brachycera genera
Taxa named by John O. Westwood
Vermileonidae
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