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Species Platycheirus thylax

Black Fly with Red Eyes - Platycheirus thylax - male

Black Fly with Red Eyes - Platycheirus thylax

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Aschiza")

Family Syrphidae (Hover Flies)

Subfamily Syrphinae

Tribe Bacchini

Genus Platycheirus

No Taxon (subgenus Platycheirus)

Species thylax (Platycheirus thylax)

Explanation of Names

Platycheirus thylax Hull, 1944

Size

Body length 5.6-6.8 mm (1)

Range

Widely distributed across Canada from British Columbia and the Yukon east to Labrador, entering the northern United States. (1)

Works Cited

1.	Revision of Platycheirus Lepeletier and Serville (Diptera: Syrphidae) in the Nearctic north of Mexico. Young, Andrew D., Marshall, Stephen F., & Skevington, Jeffrey H. 2016. Zootaxa 4082(1):001-317.

Contributed by Kelsey J.R.P. Byers on 7 December, 2016 - 7:20am

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