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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Gnats, Gall Midges, and March Flies (Bibionomorpha) » Wood Gnats (Anisopodidae) » Anisopodinae » Sylvicola » subgenus Sylvicola (Sylvicola subgenus Sylvicola) » Sylvicola alternatus

Species Sylvicola alternatus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera))
Infraorder Bibionomorpha (Gnats, Gall Midges, and March Flies)
Family Anisopodidae (Wood Gnats)
Subfamily Anisopodinae
Genus Sylvicola
No Taxon (subgenus Sylvicola)
Species alternatus (Sylvicola alternatus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Sylvicola alternatus (Say, 1823)
Synonyms:
Rhyphus alternatus Say, 1823
Identification
Crossvein between M2 and M3 (closing discal cell) distinctly after fork of M1 and M2. Pale spot near wing tip white with sharp boundary. Male holoptic. Median dark stripe on thorax (usually?) divided.
Range
Most of US and southern Canada
Contributed by John F. Carr on 3 February, 2012 - 5:43pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Bbarnd
Last updated 26 June, 2021 - 8:45am

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