Genus Hoplitimyia

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Habitat · Works Cited

Fire fly mimic - Hoplitimyia constans - female

Flower fly? Need an id - Hoplitimyia mutabilis

Hoplitimyia ? - Hoplitimyia constans - female

Fly on Brown-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia triloba) - Hoplitimyia constans - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)

Infraorder Stratiomyomorpha

Family Stratiomyidae (Soldier flies)

Subfamily Stratiomyinae

Tribe Stratiomyini

Genus Hoplitimyia

Explanation of Names

Hoplitimyia James 1934

Numbers

3 spp. north of Mexico(1), 10 total(2)

Identification

Key in(3)

Habitat

Larvae aquatic (Norm Woodley's comment)

Works Cited

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

2.	A world catalog of the Stratiomyidae (Insecta: Diptera) Woodley N.E. 2001. North American Dipterists' Society. Washington, DC. 475 pp.

3.	A review of the Nearctic Stratiomyini (Diptera, Stratiomyidae) M.T. James and G.C. Steyskal. 1952. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 45: 385-412.

Contributed by Martin Hauser on 1 June, 2006 - 1:25pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Bbarnd, v belov
Last updated 7 March, 2013 - 7:15pm

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