''Trypetoptera'' is a genus of
marsh flies in the family
Sciomyzidae
The family (biology), family Sciomyzidae belongs to the typical flies (Brachycera) of the order (biology), order Fly, Diptera. They are commonly called marsh flies, and in some cases snail-killing flies due to the food of their larvae.
Here, t ...
. There are at least two described species in ''Trypetoptera''.
Species
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T. canadensis''
( Macquart, 1843)
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T. punctulata''
(Scopoli
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (sometimes Latinized as Johannes Antonius Scopolius) (3 June 1723 – 8 May 1788) was an Italian physician and naturalist. His biographer Otto Guglia named him the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Au ...
, 1763)
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Sciomyzidae
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