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Family Heterocheilidae

Heterocheila hannai
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")
Superfamily Sciomyzoidea
Family Heterocheilidae
Explanation of Names
Heterocheilidae McAlpine 1991
Numbers
a single genus with 1 sp. in our area, 2 spp. total(1)
Range
Europe and the Pacific Northwest (WA-OR)(2)
Habitat
Coastal wrack
Works Cited
1.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.
2.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
Contributed by Joel Kits on 6 November, 2010 - 6:31pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 25 December, 2014 - 11:32pm

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