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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Sciomyzoidea » Thick-headed Flies (Conopidae) » Myopinae » Myopa

Genus Myopa

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Remarks · Print References · Internet References
Spring myopa - Myopa Diptera, ?ID - Myopa Myopa from Northern Sierra Nevada - Myopa rubida Mating Flies - Myopa - male - female Fly - Myopa Fly - Myopa Syrphidae? Hammerschmidtia? - Myopa Myopa
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")
Superfamily Sciomyzoidea
Family Conopidae (Thick-headed Flies)
Subfamily Myopinae
Genus Myopa
Explanation of Names
Myopa Fabricius 1775
Numbers
15 spp. in our area (Checklist of currently recognized Nearctic Conopidae, Burt and Skevington 2015)
Identification
one of the conopid genera that has a doubly-bent proboscis (one bend at the base, another near the middle):
Remarks
Myopa species are parasitic on Honey Bees Apis mellifera, Andrena and Mustache Bees Anthophora
Print References
Banks N. (1916) Synopses of Zodion and Myopa with Notes on other Conopidae. Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 9: 191-200 (Full Text)
Camras S. (1953) A review of the genus Myopa in North America (Diptera: Conopidae). Wasmann J. Biol. 11: 97-114 (Full text)
Freeman B.A. (1966) Notes on conopid flies, including insect host, plant and phoretic relationships (Diptera: Conopidae). J. Kans. Ent. Soc. 39: 123-131. (Full text)
Parsons C.T. (1948) A classification of North American Conopidae. Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 41: 223-246 (Full text)
Burt, Trevor (2015) Taxonomic revision of four Nearctic Conopidae (Insecta: Diptera) genera (Dalmannia, Roberstonomyia, Stylogaster and Zodion) with notes on all other Nearctic genera. (Full text)
Internet References
video of M. occulta
Contributed by tom murray on 14 May, 2005 - 11:11am
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff, v belov, Mandy Howe, lee_penner, egordon88
Last updated 19 October, 2022 - 9:56am

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