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Family Anthomyzidae

Fly - Mumetopia occipitalis Diptera 10 (July 2010) - Undescribed-f - female Anthomyzidae - Anthomyza Fly - Mumetopia occipitalis - male Fly - Mumetopia occipitalis Small fly - Drosophilidae? - Stiphrosoma fly - Mumetopia occipitalis Ischnomyia albicosta
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.