Name - Nephrocerus

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:451595 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Nephrocerus Zetterstedt 1837

• Nephrocerus Zetterstedt 1838

• Nephrocerus Zetterstedt

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Genus

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Records of Nephrocerus spp. (Dip.: Pipunculidae) from Surrey and Middlesex.
• First observation of parasitic relations between big-headed flies, Nephrocerus Zetterstedt (Diptera: Pipunculidae) and crane flies, Tipula Linnaeus (Diptera: Tipulidae: Tipulinae), with larval and puparial descriptions for the genus Nephrocerus.
• First record of Nephrocerus scutellatus (Macquart) to Catalonia (Spain) (Diptera, Pipunculidae).
• First Michigan record and second report of a big-headed fly (Diptera: Pipunculidae) parasitic upon crane flies (Diptera: Tipulidae).
• One new species in the genus Nephrocerus Zetterstedt (Diptera: Pipunculidae), with a key to species from the Palaearctic Region.

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