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Family Brachystomatidae

Flies for ID: Don't try this at home! Mating on poison oak - Brachystoma - male - female

Heleodromia irwini? - Heleodromia - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)

Superfamily Empidoidea

Family Brachystomatidae

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

used to be treated as part of Empididae until recently(1)(2)

Explanation of Names

Brachystomatidae Melander 1908

Numbers

6 spp. in 2 genera in our area(2), >150 spp. in 20 genera total(3)

Works Cited

1.	Manual of Nearctic Diptera Volume 1 Varies for each chapter; edited by J.F. McAlpine, B.V. Petersen, G.E. Shewell, H.J. Teskey, J.R. Vockeroth, D.M. Wood. 1981. Research Branch Agriculture Canada.

2.	American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.

3.	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.

Contributed by v belov on 18 December, 2010 - 10:12am
Last updated 25 December, 2014 - 6:03pm

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