Species Rhaphiomidas terminatus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Rhaphiomidas terminatus abdominalis -- Delhi Sands Flower-loving Fly - Rhaphiomidas terminatus - male

Delhi Sands Flower-loving Fly - Rhaphiomidas terminatus - male

Delhi Sands Flower-loving Fly - Rhaphiomidas terminatus - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)

Superfamily Asiloidea

Family Mydidae (Mydas Flies)

Subfamily Rhaphiomidinae

Genus Rhaphiomidas

Species terminatus (Rhaphiomidas terminatus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Rhaphiomidas terminatus Cazier, 1941

Numbers

Two subspecies:

Rhaphiomidas terminatus terminatus Cazier, 1985

Rhaphiomidas terminatus abdominalis Cazier, 1985

Remarks

R. t. abdominalis (Delhi Sands Flower-loving Fly) is on the Endangered Species List

Print References

Cazier, Mont (1941). A generic review of the family Apioceratidae with a revision of the North American species (Diptera-Brachycera). Amer. Midland Nat., Vol. 25, no. 3,pp. 589-631

Cazier, Mont (1985). A revision of the North American flies belonging to the genus Rhaphiomidas (Diptera, Apioceridae)(1). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 182(2), pp. 181-263 (Full Text)

Hogue, Charles L. (1967). The pupa of Rhaphiomidas terminatus Cazier (Diptera: Apioceridae). Bull. So. Cal. Acad. Sci. 66(1):49-53 (Full Text)

Internet References

Holotype images for male R. terminatus assigned by Mont Cazier in 1941 from the USNM-Smithsonian. Coquillett had previously referred it to Apomidas trochilus.

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the North American flies belonging to the genus Rhaphiomidas (Diptera, Apioceridae) Mont A. Cazier. 1985. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 182(2), pp. 181-263.

Contributed by Keith Bayless on 11 August, 2011 - 11:45am
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff, v belov
Last updated 10 November, 2019 - 11:41pm

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