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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Opomyzoidea » Aulacigastridae

Family Aulacigastridae

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Habitat · Works Cited
mating flies - Aulacigaster neoleucopeza - male - female fly - Aulacigaster mcalpinei Fly - Aulacigaster Aulacigaster - Aulacigaster mcalpinei Aulacigaster - Aulacigaster mcalpinei Diptera. Sciomyzidae? - Aulacigaster Lauxaniid? - Aulacigaster Aulacigastridae sp - Aulacigaster mcalpinei
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")
Superfamily Opomyzoidea
Family Aulacigastridae
Explanation of Names
Aulacigastridae Duda 1924
Numbers
5 spp. in 3 genera in our area(1)(2), 19 spp. in 5 genera total(3)
Size
~2.5 mm(2)
Habitat
Aulacigaster adults & larvae are found at slime fluxes and wounds of deciduous trees(4)
Works Cited
1.Manual of Nearctic Diptera Volume 2
Varies for each chapter; edited by J.F. McAlpine, B.V. Petersen, G.E. Shewell, H.J. Teskey, J.R. Vockeroth, D.M. Wood. 1987. Research Branch Agriculture Canada.
2.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
3.Order Diptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification...
Pape T., Blagoderov V., Mostovski M.B. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 222–229.
4.A revision of the genus Aulacigaster Macquart (Diptera: Aulacigastridae)
Rung, A. and W.N. Mathis. 2011. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology; no. 633.
Contributed by Joel Kits on 18 April, 2005 - 11:22pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, v belov
Last updated 25 December, 2014 - 5:37pm

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