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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Muscoidea » Root-Maggot Flies (Anthomyiidae) » Eustalomyia

Genus Eustalomyia

Classification · Numbers · Range · Food · Remarks
fly - Eustalomyia Maggot Fly - Eustalomyia vittipes - male From puparium in stem of ninebark - Eustalomyia vittipes - male From puparium in stem of ninebark - Eustalomyia vittipes Anthomyiidae - Root-Maggot Flies Genus Eustalomyia - Eustalomyia - female Anthomyiidae - Root-Maggot Flies Genus Eustalomyia Bioblitz 2017 - Eustalomyia - female Pale Fly - Eustalomyia vittipes - female Root-Maggot Fly (Anthomyiidae)? Genus Eustalomyia? - Eustalomyia
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Calyptratae)
Superfamily Muscoidea
Family Anthomyiidae (Root-Maggot Flies)
Genus Eustalomyia
Numbers
Three species in North America
Range
Holarctic, south into Central America
Food
Cleptoparasites of Crabronidae, including Crabro
Remarks
Michael Ackland distinguishes four species of Eustalomyia known from Europe, including all the American species:
1 Legs and palpus partly yellow ... vittipes (Zetterstedt)
– Legs and palpus completely black ... 2
2 Arista long haired, the length of the hairs on upper and lower side are each equal to width of postpedicel. Median vitta of scutum widened behind into a rounded spot ... hilaris (Fallén)
– Arista short haired or pubescent. Median vitta of scutum equally wide throughout 3
3 The length of hairing on arista in total equal to width of postpedicel. Hind tibia with 7 av-setae ... festiva (Zetterstedt)
– Hairing of arista significantly shorter, the arista is only pubescent. Hind tibia with 12 av-setae ... histrio (Zetterstedt)
Contributed by John F. Carr on 13 June, 2011 - 6:14am
Last updated 19 June, 2013 - 8:03am

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