Canacea

{{Short description|Genus of flies}} {{Automatic_taxobox | taxon = Canacea | authority = Cresson, 1924<ref name="Cresson">{{cite journal |last= Cresson |first= E.T. Jr.|date= 1924 |title= Descriptions of New Genera and Species of the Dipterous Family Ephydridae, Paper VI. |journal= Entomological News |volume= 35 |issue= 5|pages= 159–164 }}</ref> | synonyms = | type_species = ''[[Canacea macateei]]'' | type_species_authority = [[John Russell Malloch|Malloch]], 1924<ref name="Malloch1924a">{{cite journal |last= Malloch|first= John Russel |date= 1924|title= A new species of ''Canacea'' from the United States (Diptera: Ephydridae) |journal= Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington |publisher= The Entomological Society of Washington|volume= 26|issue = 3|pages= 52–53 }}</ref> }} [[File:Canacea_macateei.jpg | thumb | 220x124px | right]] '''''Canacea''''' is a genus of beach [[fly|flies]] in the [[Family (taxonomy)|family]] [[Canacidae]]. All known species are [[Nearctic realm|Nearctic]] or [[Neotropical realm|Neotropical]].<ref name="Mathis92">{{cite journal | last1 = Mathis | first1 = Wayne N. | year = 1992 | title = World Catalog of the Beach-Fly Family Canacidae (Diptera) | journal = Smithson. Contributions Zool. | volume = 536 | issue = 536 | pages = 1–18 | location = Washington, D.C. | publisher = Smithsonian Institution Press | type = Print | doi=10.5479/si.00810282.536}}</ref><ref name="MunariMathis2010">{{cite journal |last1= Munari|first1= L.|last2= Mathis|first2= W.N.|date= 2010|title= World Catalog of the Family Canacidae (including Tethinidae) (Diptera), with keys to the supraspecific taxa.|url= https://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/zt02471p084.pdf|journal= Zootaxa|publisher= Magnolia Press|volume= 2471|pages= 1–84 |issn=1175-5334 |access-date=17 August 2014|doi= 10.11646/zootaxa.2471.1.1}}</ref>

==Species== *''[[Canacea macateei|C. macateei]]'' [[John Russell Malloch|Malloch]], 1924<ref name="MunariMathis2010"/><ref name="Malloch1924a"/> *''[[Canacea currani|C. currani]]'' (Wirth, 1970)<ref name="MunariMathis2010"/><ref name="Wirth1970">{{cite journal |last= Wirth |first= W.W.|date= 1970 |title= The American beach flies of the Canace snodgrassii group |journal= Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington |publisher= The Entomological Society of Washington |volume= 72 |issue= 3 |pages= 397–403 }}</ref> *''[[Canacea aldrichi|C. aldrichi]]'' (Cresson, 1936)<ref name="MunariMathis2010"/><ref name="Cresson36">{{cite journal |last= Cresson |first= E.T. Jr.|date= 1924 |title= Descriptions and Notes on Genera and Species of the Dipterous Family Ephydridae, II |journal= Transactions of the American Entomological Society |publisher= The American Entomological Society|volume= 62 |pages= 257–270 }}</ref> *''[[Canacea snodgrassii|C. snodgrassii]]'' ([[Daniel William Coquillett|Coquillett]], 1901)<ref name="MunariMathis2010"/><ref name="Coquillett01">{{cite journal |last= Cresson |first= D.W. Jr.|date= 1901 |title= Papers from the Hopkins Stanford Galápagos Expedition, 1898–1899, II; Entomological Results (2): Diptera |journal= Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences |volume= 3 |pages= 371–379 }}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

[[Category:Canacidae]] [[Category:Carnoidea genera]]