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Family Psilidae - Rust Flies

Multicolored Fly - Psila Rust Fly - Psila collaris red insects with black heads - Loxocera cylindrica rust fly - Loxocera cylindrica Wasp - Loxocera collaris Fly - Loxocera cylindrica Flies on Citrus x limon - Chyliza notata Psila collaris
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")
Superfamily Diopsoidea
Family Psilidae (Rust Flies)
Explanation of Names
Psilidae Macquart 1835
Numbers
~30 spp. in 3 genera in our area(1), ~320 spp. in 13 genera total(2)
Food
Thought to be entirely phytophagous (1) but hosts for most species are unknown. Carex and Juncus are two reported hosts for Loxocera species. (3)
Internet References
images(4)
Works Cited
1.Manual of Nearctic Diptera Volume 2
Varies for each chapter; edited by J.F. McAlpine, B.V. Petersen, G.E. Shewell, H.J. Teskey, J.R. Vockeroth, D.M. Wood. 1987. Research Branch Agriculture Canada.
2.Order Diptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification...
Pape T., Blagoderov V., Mostovski M.B. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 222–229.
3.Revision of New World Loxocera (Diptera: Psilidae), with phylogenetic redefinition of Holarctic subgenera and species groups
Buck M., Marshall S.A. 2006. Eur. J. Entomol. 103: 193–219.
4.Diptera.info
Contributed by Joel Kits on 11 March, 2005 - 9:40pm
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, Bbarnd, v belov
Last updated 12 September, 2015 - 1:02am

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