Genus Stonemyia

Is this golden furred horse fly Stonemyia tranquilla? - Stonemyia tranquilla - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)

Infraorder Tabanomorpha

Family Tabanidae (Horse and Deer Flies)

Subfamily Pangoniinae

Tribe Pangoniini

Genus Stonemyia

Pronunciation

Stone myia

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Erected by James Brennan to receive some North American species previously assigned to non-Nearctic genera (Burger 1985), mostly to Buplex

Explanation of Names

Stonemyia Brennan 1935

Named in honour of Alan Stone, one of the great American tabanologists. Myia = fly.

Numbers

6 North American species (1); + 1 Japanese species

Size

moderate

Range

3 NA species are eastern, 3 western; all occur in the USA, 4 in Canada (1).

Food

Unlike most other tabanid species, none of the females of Stonemyia are known to feed on blood. Most are seen on flowers.

Works Cited

1.	Catalog of Tabanidae (Diptera) of North America north of Mexico Burger J.F. 1995. International Contributions on Entomology 1(1): 100pp.

Contributed by Tony on 26 June, 2005 - 5:40pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 18 August, 2025 - 10:14am

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