Species Dialysis elongata

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Works Cited

Dialysis elongata? - Dialysis elongata - male

long-bodied fly - Dialysis elongata - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)

Family Xylophagidae

Genus Dialysis

Species elongata (Dialysis elongata)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

=Stygia elongata Say 1823

Explanation of Names

Dialysis elongata (Say 1823)

Size

♂ 8.0 mm, ♀ 9.6 mm(1)

Identification

Major features include cell M3 absent and tergites with large black spot at base, with hind end blunt.

Easily recognizable from all other Eastern species by having the fore and mid tibiae pale.

Males are distinctive from other Eastern species by having a dark brown to black scutum (rarely a lighter color).(1)

Range

e. NA (QC-GA along Appalachian Mts)(1)(2)

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the nearctic genus Dialysis (Diptera: Rhagionidae) Webb D.W. 1978. J. Kans. Ent. Soc. 51: 405-431.

2.	A catalog of the World Xylophagidae (Insecta: Diptera) Woodley N.E. 2011. Myia 12: 455–500.

Contributed by John F. Carr on 31 May, 2010 - 7:37pm
Additional contributions by v belov, zdanko
Last updated 5 August, 2021 - 8:25am

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