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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Opomyzoidea » Leaf Miner Flies (Agromyzidae) » Phytomyzinae » Cerodontha » Subgenus Cerodontha (Cerodontha Subgenus Cerodontha)

Subgenus Cerodontha

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
purple abdomen fly - Cerodontha Cerodontha? - Cerodontha dorsalis Insect collected in vegetative little bluestem grass - Cerodontha dorsalis Cerodontha dorsalis? - Cerodontha dorsalis Chloropid? - Cerodontha dorsalis Cerodontha dorsalis ? - Cerodontha dorsalis Granville County leaf miner on Poaceae D2856 2021 4 - Cerodontha dorsalis Cerodontha dorsalis
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")
Superfamily Opomyzoidea
Family Agromyzidae (Leaf Miner Flies)
Subfamily Phytomyzinae
Genus Cerodontha
No Taxon Subgenus Cerodontha
Numbers
One widespread species in the lower 48 states (C. dorsalis) and two montane species in the high elevation Rocky Mountains (C. gracilis, C. occidoparva), as well as several additonal species in Canada and Alaska (1).
Identification
First flagellomere with an apical point, body partly yellow, scutellum with one pair of bristles.
Range
Cosmopolitan
Works Cited
1.Revision of Nearctic species of Cerodontha (Cerodontha) (Diptera: Agromyzidae)
Stephanie Boucher. 2002. The Canadian Entomologist.
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 14 July, 2012 - 11:31am
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum, kschnei, v belov
Last updated 18 October, 2019 - 10:55pm

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