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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Nerioidea » Stretched-foot Flies (Tanypezidae)

Family Tanypezidae - Stretched-foot Flies

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
Fly - Tanypeza picticornis Tanypezid Fly - Tanypeza longimana - male fly on log - Tanypeza - female Diptera. - Tanypeza longimana unusual fly - Tanypeza Unidentified Fly - Tanypeza Potential Tanypeza in Diefenbaker Park - Tanypeza Diptera. - Tanypeza picticornis
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")
Superfamily Nerioidea
Family Tanypezidae (Stretched-foot Flies)
Explanation of Names
Tanypezidae Rondani 1856
Numbers
2 spp. in a single genus in our area(1), ~70 spp. in 5 genera total(2)
Size
5-7 mm(1)
Range
in our area, ne. US(1)
Remarks
rare, poorly known(1)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.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.
Contributed by Joel Kits on 22 June, 2010 - 5:16pm
Additional contributions by v belov, Chris Angell
Last updated 29 July, 2024 - 9:44am

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