Species Minettia flaveola

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · Remarks · Print References

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")

Superfamily Lauxanioidea

Family Lauxaniidae

Genus Minettia

Species flaveola (Minettia flaveola)

Explanation of Names

Sapromyza flaveola Coquillett, 1898

Sapromyza univittata Coquillett, 1904

Range

Western USA and British Columbia

Food

Larvae sometimes in decaying leaves and pine cones, but also in deserts.

Remarks

Common in California (and the only yellow Minettia there). Usually all yellow, sometimes with a dark stripe on the thorax (form univittata), sometimes more extensively gray.

Print References

Gaimari, Steve. An Ode to Minettia flaveola. Fly Times 40

Contributed by Joel Kits on 3 January, 2008 - 9:14am
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 12 May, 2018 - 7:33pm

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