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Family Chyromyidae

NEW FAMILY Chyromyidae? - Gymnochiromyia Tiny orange fly - Gymnochiromyia fly emerging from rodent nest Tiny fly Fly - Gymnochiromyia Vinegar Fly on Scrub Oak Fly - Chryomyidae Chyromyidae
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")
Superfamily Sphaeroceroidea
Family Chyromyidae
Other Common Names
"Golden flies" (J. Bailey).
Explanation of Names
Chyromyidae Schiner 1863
Numbers
9 spp. in 3 genera in our area(1), ~140 spp. in 4 genera total(2)
Size
1-3 mm(1)
Range
mostly northern(1)
Habitat
larvae reared from bird nests, mammal burrows, rotting wood; adults on vegetation, those emerged from firewood often found on windows(1)
Remarks
A small but widely distributed group of rather uncommon flies(3)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.Order Diptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification...
Pape T., Blagoderov V., Mostovski M.B. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 222–229.
3.Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects
Norman F. Johnson, Charles A. Triplehorn. 2004. Brooks Cole.