Hoffeinsomyia

<i>Hoffeinsomyia</i>

Hoffeinsomyia

Extinct genus of flies

Hoffeinsomyia is an extinct genus of small-headed flies in the family Acroceridae. It is known from Baltic amber from the Eocene of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. It contains only one species, Hoffeinsomyia leptogaster.[1]

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The genus is named in honor of Christel and Hans Werner Hoffeins. The specific name is said to be a combination of the Greek words lepto (slender) and gaster (abdomen).[1] The proper word for slender in ancient Greek is however leptos/ē/on (λεπτός/ή/όν).[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Gillung, Jessica P.; Winterton, Shaun L. (2017). "A review of fossil spider flies (Diptera: Acroceridae) with descriptions of new genera and species from Baltic Amber". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 16 (4): 325–350. doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1289566. S2CID 90493326.
  2. [2]
    Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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