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Genus Hermetia

Another Hermetia from the gathering - Hermetia concinna

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 Hermetiinae

Genus Hermetia

Explanation of Names

Hermetia Latreille 1804

Numbers

12 spp. in our area(1), ~80 total(2)

Range

worldwide, ⅔ of the spp. neotropical(2)

Print References

James M.T. (1935) The genus Hermetia in the United States (Diptera, Stratiomyidae). Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 30:165-170. (Full text)

James M.T. (1967) The Hermetia comstocki group (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). Pan-Pac. Entomol. 43: 61-64. (Full text)

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.

Contributed by Richard Leung on 4 October, 2004 - 10:42pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, Aaron Schusteff, v belov
Last updated 1 October, 2023 - 10:39pm

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