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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Small-headed Flies (Acroceridae) » Pterodontia

Genus Pterodontia

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Print References · Works Cited
Pterodontia vix - male Pterodontia vix - male Acroceridae - Pterodontia ? - Pterodontia westwoodi - female Unknown beetle/bee? - Pterodontia flavipes Small Headed Fly - Pterodontia misella - female Curated Specimen from the CAS - Pterodontia notomaculata - male Small-headed Fly. - Pterodontia johnsoni Unknown Insect - Pterodontia
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)
Family Acroceridae (Small-headed Flies)
Genus Pterodontia
Explanation of Names
Pterodontia Gray 1832
Numbers
6 spp. in our area(1):
flavipes Gray transcontinental (OR-CA to NB-MD)
johnsoni Cole w US (WA-CA-ID)
misella Osten Sacken w NA (BC-CA to MT-UT)
notomaculata Sabrosky w US (OR-ID-CA)
vix Townsend CA
westwoodi Sabrosky east coast (MA-GA)
Identification
Eyes pilose; antennae are attached below the middle of the head, and are small, short, and inconspicuous; mouthparts small and nearly imperceptible; males have a tooth-like projection along the costal edge of the wing (females lack this "tooth"); tibiae have (small) apical spurs.
Print References
(2)(3)(4)
Works Cited
1.A Catalog of the Diptera of America North of Mexico
Alan Stone, et al. 1965. United States Department of Agriculture.
2.The dipterous family Cyrtidae in North America
Cole F.R. 1919. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 45: 1-79.
3.A new species and notes on Acroceridae (Diptera)
Sabrosky C.W. 1943. Ent. News 55: 176-182.
4.A further contribution to the classification of the North American spider parasites of the family Acroceratidae (Diptera)
Sabrosky C.W. 1948. Am. Midl. Nat. 39: 382-430.
Contributed by Chuck Entz on 20 June, 2006 - 7:26am
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff, v belov
Last updated 27 November, 2019 - 2:07am

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