Genus Tomosvaryella

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Print References

Syrphids? - Tomosvaryella - male - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Aschiza)

Family Pipunculidae (Big-headed flies)

Genus Tomosvaryella

Numbers

34 species throughout North America north of Mexico.

Identification

Hind margin of eye straight; propleuron bare; abdominal tergites not shining; wing without pterostigma, r-m about in middle of D cell (Skevington & Yeates 2001).

Print References

Skevington, J. H. and D. K. Yeates. 2001. Phylogenetic classification of Eudorylini (Diptera: Pipunculidae). Systematic Entomology 26: 421-452.

Contributed by Keith Bayless on 17 February, 2008 - 10:48pm

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