Global InformationNgirhaphium information
| Ngirhaphium | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Dolichopodidae |
| Subfamily: | Rhaphiinae |
| Genus: | Ngirhaphium Evenhuis & Grootaert, 2002[1] |
| Type species | |
| Ngirhaphium murphyi Evenhuis & Grootaert, 2002[1]
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Ngirhaphium is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.[1][2] It includes six species known from mangroves in Southeast Asia. Ngirhaphium closely resembles the genus Rhaphium and was originally placed in the subfamily Rhaphiinae, though several molecular phylogenetic analyses were unable to resolve its phylogenetic position.[3] The genus is named after Peter Kee Lin Ng, a professor at the National University of Singapore; the genus name combines the family name "Ng" and the generic name Rhaphium.[1]
- ^ a b c d Evenhuis, Neal. L.; Grootaert, Patrick (2002). "Annotated checklist of the Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of Singapore, with descriptions of a new genus and new species" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 50 (2): 301–316. ISSN 0217-2445. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Grootaert, Patrick; Puniamoorthy, Jayanthi (2014). "Revision of Ngirhaphium (Insecta: Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with the description of two new species from Singapore's mangroves" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 62: 146–160.