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Genus Pseudonomoneura

Mydas fly on buckwheat - Pseudonomoneura hirta - female Fly at buckwheat flowers - Pseudonomoneura hirta - female Pseudonomoneura hirta - male High elevation Southern Sierra mydid record - Pseudonomoneura hirta - male High elevation Southern Sierra mydid record - Pseudonomoneura hirta - male Pseudonomoneura sp. - Pseudonomoneura hirta - female Pseudonomoneura - Pseudonomoneura californica - female Topotype images for male from the CAS - Pseudonomoneura tinkhami - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)
Superfamily Asiloidea
Family Mydidae (Mydas Flies)
Subfamily Leptomydinae
Genus Pseudonomoneura
Explanation of Names
Pseudonomoneura Bequaert 1961
Numbers
5 spp. in our area, 7 spp. total(1)
Identification
First metatarsomere ~3⨯ as long as broad, CuA1 ends in M, antennal club shorter than flagellomere 1(2)
reviewed in (3)
Range
sw. US & nw. Mexico(1)
Print References
(4)
Works Cited
1.Dikow T. (2001–) Asiloid Flies web-site
2.Manual of Nearctic Diptera Volume 1
Varies for each chapter; edited by J.F. McAlpine, B.V. Petersen, G.E. Shewell, H.J. Teskey, J.R. Vockeroth, D.M. Wood. 1981. Research Branch Agriculture Canada.
3.A review of the mydid genus Pseudonomoneura Bequaert (Diptera: Mydidae), with the description of two new species
Fitzgerald S.J., Kondratieff B.C. 1995. Proc. Ent Soc. Wash. 97: 22–45.
4.The Nearctic Nomoneura and Nemomydas (Diptera: Mydaidae)
Hardy D.E. 1950. Wasmann J. Biol. 8: 9-37.
Contributed by Keith Bayless on 10 February, 2008 - 2:18am
Additional contributions by Hartmut Wisch, Aaron Schusteff, v belov
Last updated 18 September, 2023 - 6:41pm

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