Species Hylemya alcathoe

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Life Cycle · Works Cited

Fly on Mushroom - Hylemya alcathoe - male

20200904_Squak_Mountain_SP_1891 - Hylemya alcathoe

20200904_Squak_Mountain_SP_1893 - Hylemya alcathoe

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Calyptratae)

Superfamily Muscoidea

Family Anthomyiidae (Root-Maggot Flies)

Genus Hylemya

Species alcathoe (Hylemya alcathoe)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Anthomyia alcathoe Walker, 1849

Hylemyia tenax Johannsen, 1916

Identification

"H. alcathoe is notable in the genus due to its long pectinate aristal hairs, yellow palpi, normally yellow legs and partly reddish abdomen. The female abdomen may occasionally be wholly gray."(1) In addition, the female may have humeri and scutellum yellow where they are dark in the male. (Griffiths, 2001(2))

Range

Temperate forests of North America. The eastern and western distributions may be disjunct because there are no records from north of the prairie.

Life Cycle

Females deposit larvae on dung. May have several generations per year in suitable climate.

Works Cited

1.	The Anthomyiidae of California, Exclusive of the subfamily Scatophaginae (Diptera).

2.	Flies of the Nearctic region, Volume VIII: Cyclorrhapha II. (Schizophora: Calyptratae), Part 2: Anthomyiidae, No. 13 Griffiths, Graham C. D. 2001. Schweizerbart.

Contributed by John F. Carr on 8 March, 2013 - 6:25pm
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff
Last updated 14 August, 2015 - 9:56pm

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