Genus Callopistromyia

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Works Cited

Picture-winged fly - Callopistromyia annulipes

Callopistromyia annulipes? - Callopistromyia annulipes

Pictured wing fly - Callopistromyia strigula - male

Picture-winged Fly - Callopistromyia strigula - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")

Superfamily Tephritoidea

Family Ulidiidae (Picture-winged Flies)

Subfamily Otitinae

Tribe Myennidini

Genus Callopistromyia

Explanation of Names

Callopistromyia Hendel 1907

Numbers

2 spp. total, both in our area(1)

Size

3.5–5.5 mm(1)

Identification

Key to species in (1)

Range

nearctic genus; transcontinental, BC‒WA‒UT to ON‒GA‒LA(1)

Habitat

on dead or dying deciduous trees(1)

Food

adults observed feeding on frass of wood borers in live Robinia pseudacacia(1)

Works Cited

1.	Myennidini, a new tribe of the subfamily Otitinae (Diptera: Ulidiidae), with discussion of the suprageneric classification... Kameneva E., Korneyev V. 2006. Isr. J. Entomol. 35-36: 497-586.

Contributed by Cotinis on 12 August, 2005 - 9:34am
Additional contributions by v belov, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 24 February, 2025 - 10:45am

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