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Family Heleomyzidae

Heleomyza captiosa (Diptera: Heleomyzidae) newly recorded from the Nearctic region, with an updated key to Nearctic Heleomyza...

By Angell, C.A. and Barnd, B.D.
The Canadian Entomologist: 157, e28, 2025

Full title: "Heleomyza captiosa (Diptera: Heleomyzidae) newly recorded from the Nearctic region, with an updated key to Nearctic Heleomyza and similar Scoliocentra"

https://doi.org/10.4039/tce.2025.10009

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Contributed by Brad Barnd on 11 August, 2025 - 4:12pm

New records of three introduced heleomyzid flies (Diptera: Heleomyzidae) in western North America

By Angell, C.S., Gaimari, S.D., & Woźnica, A.J.
The Canadian Entomologist 156: e16, 2024

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Contributed by Chris Angell on 31 May, 2024 - 5:37pm

Notes on the biology of certain Heleomyzid flies of eastern North America

By Garnett, W.B. and B.A. Foote
Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 39: 552-555, 1966

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Contributed by Brad Barnd on 21 April, 2014 - 12:31am

The heleomyzid flies of America north of Mexico (Diptera: Heleomyzidae)

By Gill, G.D.
Proceedings of the United States National Museum 113: 495-603, 1962

Can be found online here: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/51820#/summary

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Contributed by Brad Barnd on 21 April, 2014 - 12:15am

A new genus and species of Helomyzidae (Diptera)

By Malloch J.R.
Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, 11(1): 14-16, 1916

Malloch’s original description of Orbellia petersoni as Anarostomoides petersoni

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(note that Malloch’s spelling of the family name leaves out the second “e”)

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Contributed by Steve Scholnick on 22 January, 2018 - 4:09pm

The synonymy of Amoebaleria sackeni Garrett (Diptera: Heleomyzidae)

By Steyskal, G.C.
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 70(2):113, 1968

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Contributed by Steve Scholnick on 5 February, 2019 - 11:08am

A revision of the nearctic species of the genus Trixoscelis Rondani (Diptera: Heleomyzidae: Trixoscelidinae)

By Foster, G.A. and W.N. Mathis
Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, Volume 637: pp. 1-128, 2012

Online: http://hdl.handle.net/10088/17554

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Contributed by Brad Barnd on 28 August, 2012 - 3:03pm

Family groups of Diopsoidea and Nerioidea (Diptera: Schizophora): Definition, history and relationships

By Lonsdale O.
Zootaxa 4735: 1‒177, 2020

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Contributed by v belov on 18 August, 2023 - 5:45pm

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