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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Tephritoidea » Picture-winged Flies (Ulidiidae) » Otitinae » Myennidini » Callopistromyia

Genus Callopistromyia

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Works Cited
fly - Callopistromyia annulipes Dancing fly - Callopistromyia annulipes speckeld fly - Callopistromyia annulipes peacock fly - Callopistromyia annulipes Peacock fly? - Callopistromyia annulipes Peacock Fly - Callopistromyia annulipes picture-winged fly - Callopistromyia strigula - male Fly ex inner bark, boxelder - Callopistromyia strigula
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
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Callopistromyia Hendel 1907
Callopistria Loew, 1873
Numbers
2 spp. in the genus, both in our area(1)
Size
3.5–5.5 mm(1)
Identification
Key to species in(1)
Range
nearctic genus; widespread across the US (south to GA-LA-UT-WA) and adjacent Canada (ON-BC)(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 20 April, 2019 - 11:43pm

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