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Species Athyroglossa glaphyropus

Athyroglossa? - Athyroglossa glaphyropus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")

Superfamily Ephydroidea

Family Ephydridae (Shore Flies)

Subfamily Gymnomyzinae

Genus Athyroglossa

Species glaphyropus (Athyroglossa glaphyropus)

Identification

The only Eastern species of the genus with white halteres.

Range

Eastern USA to Argentina

Print References

Wirth, Willis W. “A New Athyroglossa, with a Key to North American Species (Diptera: Ephydridae).” Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, vol. 43, no. 3, 1970, pp. 315–319. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25082336. Accessed 12 July 2021.

Contributed by John F. Carr on 23 December, 2015 - 6:40am
Additional contributions by zdanko
Last updated 11 July, 2021 - 8:45pm

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