Genus Thaumatomyia

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Food · Works Cited

Syrphidae ?? female? - Thaumatomyia annulata

70's sports Morris Mini fly - Thaumatomyia

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")

Superfamily Carnoidea

Family Chloropidae (Frit Flies)

Subfamily Chloropinae (Grass Flies)

Genus Thaumatomyia

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Chloropisca Loew 1866, Pseudochlorops Malloch 1914

Explanation of Names

Thaumatomyia Zenker 1833

Numbers

11 spp. in the Nearctic Region, 42 worldwide (Narchuk 2000)

Identification

Note margined scutellum and the apically positioned scutellar bristles (comments here)

key to most NA spp. in (1)

Food

Larvae predaceous on aphids (Narchuk 2000)

Works Cited

1.	A revised synopsis of nearctic Thaumatomyia (=Chloropisca) (Diptera, Chloropidae) Sabrosky C.W. 1943. Can. Entomol. 75: 109‒117.

Contributed by Keith Bayless on 23 August, 2007 - 12:52pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, Aaron Schusteff, Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 21 September, 2023 - 6:08pm

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