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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Platypezoidea » Scuttle Flies (Phoridae) » Phorinae » Anevrina

Genus Anevrina

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
Diptera 7 (July 2010) - Anevrina luggeri
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Aschiza")
Superfamily Platypezoidea
Family Phoridae (Scuttle Flies)
Subfamily Phorinae
Genus Anevrina
Explanation of Names
Anevrina Lioy 1864
Numbers
11 spp. total(1)
Identification
large, mostly dark colored(1)
Range
throughout the northern hemisphere(1)
Food
larvae probably scavengers or necrophagous on small vertebrates(1)
Works Cited
1.A molecular phylogenetic analysis of genus Anevrina (Dip: Phoridae), with the description of a new species and updated world key
Smith P.T., Brown B.T. 2010. Zootaxa 2397: 29–40.
Contributed by John F. Carr on 12 March, 2011 - 10:33am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 15 December, 2014 - 12:02pm

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