Family Anthomyzidae

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Works Cited

Diptera 10 (July 2010) - Undescribed-f - female

Small fly - Drosophilidae? - Stiphrosoma

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")

Superfamily Opomyzoidea

Family Anthomyzidae

Explanation of Names

Anthomyzidae Czerny 1903

Numbers

~100 spp. in 22 genera total(1)

Nearctic fauna(2):

Fungomyza 1 sp.

Ischnomyia 1 sp.

Undescribed genus 1 1 sp.

Undescribed genus 2 1 sp.

Arganthomyza 7 spp.

Anthomyza 18 spp.: A. macra group 3 spp., A. pallida group 6 spp., A. neglecta group 4 spp., A. tschirnhausi group 2 spp., A. gracilis group 3 spp.

Identification

revision with keys to genera in (2)

Works Cited

1.	Order Diptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification... Pape T., Blagoderov V., Mostovski M.B. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 222–229.

2.	Nearctic Anthomyzidae: a monograph of Anthomyza and allied genera (Diptera) Roháček, Jindřich and Kevin N. Barber. 2016. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae.

Contributed by tom murray on 17 July, 2005 - 8:26pm
Additional contributions by v belov, Spencer_pote
Last updated 25 August, 2021 - 9:08am

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