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Aphrosylus Haliday, 1851

AphiaID

151025 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:151025)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Hydrophorinae

Direct children (3)

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Species Aphrosylus celtiber Haliday, 1855
Species Aphrosylus ferox Haliday, 1851
Species Aphrosylus praedator Wheeler, 1897

Environment

marine, terrestrial

Original description

Haliday, A. H. (1851). Diptera. Pp. 1-9. Empididae. Pp. 85-144. Dolichopidae. Pp. 144-221. Syrphidae. Pp. 234-303. In Walker, F., Insecta Britannica, Diptera. Volume 1. (q.v.) [1851.12.??]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19720049
page(s): 220 [details]

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2026). Aphrosylus Haliday, 1851. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=151025 on 2026-07-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-04-05 07:38:13Z

created

Cuvelier, Daphne

2013-10-11 07:48:06Z

checked

Wyatt, Nigel

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Nomenclature

original description Haliday, A. H. (1851). Diptera. Pp. 1-9. Empididae. Pp. 85-144. Dolichopidae. Pp. 144-221. Syrphidae. Pp. 234-303. In Walker, F., Insecta Britannica, Diptera. Volume 1. (q.v.) [1851.12.??]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19720049
page(s): 220 [details]

basis of record Grootaert, P.; De Bruyn, L.; De Meyer, M. (1991). Catalogue of the Diptera of Belgium. <em>Studiedocumenten van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen.</em> 70: 338pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Other

context source (MSBIAS) Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. (2023). 2019 The Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA) Wembury Bioblitz survey. The Archive for Marine Species and Habitats Data (DASSH). , available online at https://portal.medin.org.uk/portal/start.php#details?tpc=010_71a02145fae5466afe757cd48b999ded [details]

additional source Cheng, L. (Ed.). (1976). Marine insects. North-Holland Publishing Company: Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 0-444-11213-8. XII, 581 pp., available online at http://repositories.cdlib.org/sio/techreport/48/ [details]