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Subfamily Beridinae

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New bug to check out. - Exaireta spinigera small fly - Allognosta fuscitarsis diptera - Actina viridis - female Beris fuscipes?? - Beris fuscipes - female Unknown Fly - Allognosta fuscitarsis - female Diptera - Beris - female soldier fly with metallic green thorax - Actina viridis - female fly - Allognosta

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)
Infraorder Stratiomyomorpha
Family Stratiomyidae (Soldier flies)
Subfamily Beridinae

Explanation of Names

Beridinae Westwood 1838

Numbers

9 spp. in 4 genera in our area(1) (one recently introduced), ~210 spp. in 33 genera total(2)

Identification

reviewed in (3)

Range

worldwide, but hardly represented in Africa(2)

Works Cited

1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.A world catalog of the Stratiomyidae (Insecta: Diptera)
Woodley N.E. 2001. North American Dipterists' Society. Washington, DC. 475 pp.
3.A review of the Nearctic Beridinae (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)
M.T. James. 1939. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 32: 543-548.
Contributed by v belov on 30 July, 2010 - 11:08am
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum
Last updated 1 October, 2023 - 9:42pm

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