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Genus Notogramma

reddish fly - Notogramma reddish fly - Notogramma fly - Notogramma Ulidiid - Notogramma Notogramma purpuratum? - Notogramma purpuratum - female Notogramma from Chaparral WMA, South TX - Notogramma Ulidiidae? - Notogramma Female, Notogramma purpuratum? - Notogramma purpuratum
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")
Superfamily Tephritoidea
Family Ulidiidae (Picture-winged Flies)
Subfamily Ulidiinae
Tribe Lipsanini
Genus Notogramma
Explanation of Names
Notogramma Loew 1868
Numbers
2 spp. in our area
Range
so. US to Peru; only N. purpuratum has been recorded in the US outside of so. TX
Food
Cactus (N. purpuratum); live and rotten fruit (N. cimiciforme)
Print References
Steyskal G.C. (1963) The genus Notogramma Loew. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 65: 195-200.