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Genus Caloparyphus

Stratiomyidae - Caloparyphus tetraspilus

Soldier Fly, perhaps? - Caloparyphus mariposa - male

Pennsylvania Fly for ID - Caloparyphus tetraspilus - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)

Infraorder Stratiomyomorpha

Family Stratiomyidae (Soldier flies)

Subfamily Stratiomyinae

Tribe Oxycerini

Genus Caloparyphus

Explanation of Names

Caloparyphus James 1939

Numbers

12 spp., all but one in our area(1)

Print References

James M.T. (1939) The species of Euparyphus related to crotchii O. S. (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). Pan-Pac. Entomol. 15: 49-56 (Full text)

Works Cited

1.	A world catalog of the Stratiomyidae (Insecta: Diptera) Woodley N.E. 2001. North American Dipterists' Society. Washington, DC. 475 pp.

Contributed by Joel Kits on 7 November, 2008 - 8:29pm
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff, v belov
Last updated 22 August, 2018 - 5:18pm

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