Peodes

Peodes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Dolichopodidae
Subfamily:	Hydrophorinae
Tribe:	Epithalassiini
Genus:	Peodes Loew, 1857[1]
Type species
Peodes forcipatus Loew, 1857[1]

Peodes is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae,[2] with three known species from the Palaearctic realm.[3]

Species

The following three species are included in the genus:[3]

• Peodes forcipatus Loew, 1857[1] – Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia (Krasnodar, Saint Petersburg, Ural), Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland
• Peodes petsamoensis Frey, 1930[4] – Czech Republic, Russia (Murmansk Oblast)
• Peodes yeniseiensis Grichanov, 2012[3] – Russia (Taymyr)

Unrecognised species:

• "Peodes" nicobarensis Schiner, 1868 – Nicobar Islands; considered a member of Sympycninae or Peloropeodinae

References

1. Loew, Hermann (1857). "Neue Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Dipteren. Fünfter Beitrag". Programm der Königlichen Realschule zu Meseritz: 1–56.
2. Yang, D.; Zhu, Y.; Wang, M.; Zhang, L. (2006). World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera). Beijing: China Agricultural University Press. pp. 1–704. ISBN 9787811171020.
3. Grichanov, I. Ya. (2012). "Review of the genus Peodes Loew, 1857 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae, Hydrophorinae)" (PDF). Far Eastern Entomologist (245): 1–8.
4. Frey, R (1930). "Neue Diptera brachycera aus Finnland und angrenzenden Landern". Notulae Entomologicae. 10: 82–94.