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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Oestroidea » Parasitic Flies (Tachinidae) » Tachininae » Graphogastrini » Phytomyptera

Genus Phytomyptera

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited
A fly, Oestroidea. Appreciate an ID. - Phytomyptera fly - Phytomyptera flavipes - male Phytomyptera ruficornis - male Tachinid Fly - Phytomyptera melissopodis Fly - Phytomyptera johnsoni - female Small dark tachinid - Phytomyptera Small dark urban tachinid - Phytomyptera tiny Tachinid - Phytomyptera
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Calyptratae)
Superfamily Oestroidea
Family Tachinidae (Parasitic Flies)
Subfamily Tachininae
Tribe Graphogastrini
Genus Phytomyptera
Explanation of Names
Phytomyptera Rondani 1845
Numbers
23 spp. in our area(1)

Species:
aenea (Coquillett, 1895)
amplicornis (James, 1955)
aristalis (Townsend, 1915)
convecta (Walker, 1853)
cornuta (Reinhard, 1931)
curriei (Townsend, 1916)
erisma (Reinhard, 1962)
erotema (Reinhard, 1958)
exul (Walker, 1853)
flavipes (Reinhard, 1943)
johnsoni (Coquillett, 1897)
latifrons (Greene, 1934)
longicornis (Coquillett, 1902)
melissopodis (Coquillett, 1897)
nigra (Brooks, 1945)
palpigera (Coquillett, 1895)
pruinosa (Malloch, 1927)
ruficornis (Greene, 1934)
setigera (Thomson, 1869)
tarsalis (Coquillett, 1895)
usitata (Coquillett, 1897)
vitinervis (Thompson, 1911)
walleyi Brooks, 1945.
Range
worldwide (except Australasia), incl. most of NA(2)(1)
Food
hosts are various moths: Pterophoridae, Olethreutidae, Oecophoridae, Gelechiidae, Tineidae, Pyralidae, Tortricidae, Glyphipterygidae); also reared from a weevil (Curculio sp., Curculionidae)(1)
See Also
Paracraspedothrix is superficially similar. Among other differences, the tip of vein M is more strongly curved in Phytomyptera.
Internet References
Genus page(1)
Works Cited
1.Taxonomic and host catalogue of the Tachinidae of America North of Mexico
2.O’Hara J.E., Henderson S.J. (2020) World genera of the Tachinidae (Diptera) and their regional occurrence. Version 11.0
Contributed by v belov on 15 April, 2009 - 11:00am
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Vox Sciurorum
Last updated 23 March, 2022 - 7:10pm

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