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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Muscoidea » Root-Maggot Flies (Anthomyiidae) » Leucophora » Leucophora johnsoni

Species Leucophora johnsoni

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Season
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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 Leucophora
Species johnsoni (Leucophora johnsoni)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Hylemyia johnsoni Stein, 1898
Identification
In the eastern United States, the combination of legs partly yellow, a ventral bristle on mid tibia, and female eyes slightly closer together than normal but still separated by about 2/3 their width) will identify this species.
Range
Northern Canada to Argentina, but not known west of the Rocky Mountains in the United States.
Season
Adults fly in spring
Contributed by John F. Carr on 16 May, 2015 - 8:34pm

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