Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Solva

Dark fly with white legs - Solva pallipes Fly - Solva pallipes Xylomyid? - Solva pallipes Xylomyid? - Solva pallipes unknown fly - Solva pallipes Solva pallipes Thereviidae? - Solva pallipes - female White legged fly - Solva pallipes
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)
Infraorder Stratiomyomorpha
Family Xylomyidae
Genus Solva
Explanation of Names
Solva Walker 1859
Numbers
3 spp. in our area, ~100 spp. worldwide(1)
Range
worldwide(1)
Works Cited
1.A catalog of the World Xylomyidae (Insecta: Diptera)
Woodley N.E. 2011. Myia 12: 417–453.