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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Mydas Flies (Mydidae) » Rhaphiomidinae » Rhaphiomidas

Genus Rhaphiomidas

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Print References · Works Cited
Diptera - Rhaphiomidas nigricaudis - male Rhaphiomidas terminatus abdominalis -- Delhi Sands Flower-loving Fly - Rhaphiomidas terminatus - male Rhaphiomidas acton - male Rhaphiomidas female - Rhaphiomidas - female Hemitergites & Gonostyles - Rhaphiomidas parkeri - male Rhaphio - Rhaphiomidas acton - female undescribed species - Rhaphiomidas - female Rhaphiomidas - Rhaphiomidas acton
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
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Formerly treated in Apioceridae(1)
Explanation of Names
Rhaphiomidas Osten Sacken 1877
Numbers
15 spp. in our area, 23 total(2)(3)
Identification
key to spp. in(4)
Range
sw. US and nw. Mexico(2)
Habitat
Sandy habitats in relatively arid locales
Print References
Rogers R., Mattoni R. (1993) Observations on the natural history and conservation biology of the giant flower loving flies, Rhaphiomidas (Diptera: Apioceridae). Dipterol. Res. 4: 21-34.
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.Dikow T. (2001–) Asiloid Flies web-site
3.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.
4.A new species and key for Rhaphiomidas Osten Sacken (Diptera: Mydidae)
Van Dam M.H. 2010. Zootaxa 2622: 49-60.
Contributed by Martin Hauser on 25 June, 2006 - 10:42pm
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff, v belov
Last updated 5 April, 2017 - 1:10am

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