Species Cordilura varipes

Classification · Food · Internet References

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Calyptratae)

Superfamily Muscoidea

Family Scathophagidae (Dung Flies)

Genus Cordilura

Species varipes (Cordilura varipes)

Food

According to ION (below), a predator of the biting midge Culicoides variipennis (Ceratopogonidae).

Internet References

ION

Contributed by Hannah Nendick-Mason on 6 February, 2007 - 8:29pm

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