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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Opomyzoidea » Anthomyzidae

Family Anthomyzidae

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Print References · Works Cited
fly - Anthomyza shewelli - female Vinegar Fly? - Stiphrosoma pectinatum Fly - Anthomyza vulgaris Ischnomyia albicosta anthomyzid - Anthomyza variegata - female Acalyptratae Flightless Anthomyzidae from Alberta (Stiphrosoma artum) - Stiphrosoma artum - male Anthomyzidae?
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)
Print References
Rohácek, J. and Barber, K.N. 2023. Nearctic Anthomyzidae: Genera Mumetopia Melander and Xerocomyza gen. n. (Diptera). European Journal of Taxonomy 120: 254-292.
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, Arturo Santos, Spencer_pote
Last updated 19 November, 2023 - 3:47pm

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