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Genus Callopistromyia

Picture-winged fly - Callopistromyia annulipes Callopistromyia annulipes? - Callopistromyia annulipes Pictured wing fly - Callopistromyia strigula - male Spotted Fly - Callopistromyia annulipes Picture-winged Fly - Callopistromyia strigula - female Peacock Fly - Callopistromyia annulipes Callopistromyia strigula Peacock Fly - Callopistromyia annulipes
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)