Genus Fucellia - Seaweed Flies

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Habitat · Remarks

Fucellia from CA Beach - Fucellia - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Calyptratae)

Superfamily Muscoidea

Family Anthomyiidae (Root-Maggot Flies)

Genus Fucellia (Seaweed Flies)

Numbers

Nearctica lists 19 species.

Identification

Unlike most Anthomyiidae the eyes of males are dichoptic (i.e., broadly separated above, as in females). In most Anthomyiidae males the eyes are touching or very narrowly separated above.

Habitat

On seashores, also along shores of the Great Lakes.

Remarks

Fucellia is in a separate subfamily within the Anthomyiidae: the Fucelliinae.

Contributed by Keith Bayless on 5 October, 2007 - 11:32am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Matthias Buck
Last updated 8 November, 2009 - 4:38am

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