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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Xylophagidae » Xylophagus

Genus Xylophagus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
fly larva - Xylophagus X. lugens - Xylophagus cinctus X. lugens - Xylophagus cinctus Unknown Fly - Xylophagus fly - Xylophagus lugens - female Xylophagus reflectens? - Xylophagus reflectens - male - female Unknown - Xylophagus Xylophagus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)
Family Xylophagidae
Genus Xylophagus
Explanation of Names
Xylophagus Meigen 1803
Numbers
7 spp. in our area in 2 subgenera, 24 total(1)(2)
Identification
key to NA species:
1. Scape < 3X length of pedicel (2)(subgenus Xylophagus)
Scape > 3X length of pedicel (5)(subgenus Archimyia)
2. Frons/Occiput enitrely pruinose (3)
Glossy band dorsal of antennae (4)
3. Metacoxa w/ anteromedial tubercle; Northeast X. nitidis
Metacoxa w/o anteromedial tubercle; West Coast to Alaska X. gracilis
4. Sternopleuron/Hypopleuron glossy; abdomen entirely black in both sexes; Eastern X. lugens
Sternopleuron/Hypopleuron w/ pruinosity; basal portion of abdomen orange in female; Widespread X. cinctus
5. Frons/Occiput glossy; Boreal/Northeast/Colorado X. fulgidus
Frons pruinose (6)
6. Pedicel 1.5X ocellar distance; Eastern X. reflectens
Pedicel < 1.5X ocellar distance; West Coast X. decorus
Range
holarctic; across NA(1)
Works Cited
1.A catalog of the World Xylophagidae (Insecta: Diptera)
Woodley N.E. 2011. Myia 12: 455–500.
2.A Revision of the Nearctic Species of Xylophagus (Diptera: Xylophagidae)
Webb, D.W. 1979. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society Vol. 52, No. 3, pp. 489-523.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 23 May, 2006 - 7:02pm
Additional contributions by Keith Bayless, Matt Bertone, v belov, zdanko
Last updated 4 August, 2021 - 11:38pm

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