Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
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Asteiidae
Family Asteiidae
Classification
Kingdom
Animalia (Animals)
Phylum
Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum
Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class
Insecta (Insects)
Order
Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon
("Acalyptratae")
Superfamily
Opomyzoidea
Family
Asteiidae
Explanation of Names
Asteiidae Rondani 1856
Numbers
6 genera in our area, ~140 spp. in 10 genera total
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1
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Identification
Tiny flies with distinctive wing venation
Habitat
have been reared from fungi and decaying vegetation; adults sometimes collected at tree sap
Print References
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Internet References
photo gallery
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3
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Works Cited
1.
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.
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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.
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Diptera.info
Contributed by
Keith Bayless
on 11 March, 2008 - 10:16am
Additional contributions by
Vox Sciurorum
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v belov
Last updated 25 December, 2014 - 5:32pm