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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Mydas Flies (Mydidae) » Mydinae » Phyllomydas

Genus Phyllomydas

Classification · Numbers · Range · Print References · Works Cited
Not good with flying things - Phyllomydas parvulus - male Mydas fly - Phyllomydas currani - male Mydas Fly - Phyllomydas parvulus - female Fly ID request - Phyllomydas beach bug - Phyllomydas parvulus Mydidae - Mydas Flies - Phyllomydas parvulus Phyllomydas (?) - Phyllomydas scitulus - male P phyllocerus - Phyllomydas phyllocerus - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)
Superfamily Asiloidea
Family Mydidae (Mydas Flies)
Subfamily Mydinae
Genus Phyllomydas
Numbers
7 spp. in our area, 8 total(1)
Range
so. US (FL-TX-KS-AZ) & Mexico(1)
Print References
Artigas, Jorge N and Nelson Papavero (1990). "Studies on Mydidae (Diptera): V. Phylogenetic and biogeographic notes, key to the American genera and illustrations of spermathecae". Gayana Zool. 54(3-4): 87-116 (Full Text)
Hardy, D. E. (1943). Studies in Phyllomydas (Mydaidae-Diptera). J. Kans. ent. Soc. 16(2): 50-52 (Full Text)
Johnson, C. W. (1926). A revision of some of the North American species of Mydaidae. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. (1925-1928) 38: 131-145.
Wilcox, J., Papavero, N. (1971). "The American genera of Mydidae (Diptera) with the description of three new genera and two new species". Arquivos Zoologica 21(2): 41–119 (Full Text)
Wilcox, J. (1978). Studies of Mydidae (Diptera) systematics and evolution. IVa. The genus Phyllomydas Bigot (Mydinae: Phyllomydini). Arquivos Zoologica 29(2): 111–132 (Full Text)
Works Cited
1.Dikow T. (2001–) Asiloid Flies web-site
Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 28 March, 2005 - 10:54pm
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff, v belov
Last updated 11 June, 2017 - 7:12pm

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