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

Species Hydrophoria lancifer

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · See Also
root-maggot fly - Hydrophoria lancifer - female Fly - Hydrophoria lancifer - female Muscidae? - Hydrophoria lancifer - male Small fly - Hydrophoria lancifer Anthomyiidae (Root-Maggot Fly) - Hydrophoria lancifer - male resembles Hydrophoria or Zaphne - Hydrophoria lancifer resembles Hydrophoria or Zaphne - Hydrophoria lancifer Unknown Fly - Hydrophoria lancifer
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 Hydrophoria
Species lancifer (Hydrophoria lancifer)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Musca lancifer Harris, 1780
Identification
Wing yellowish at base, lower calypter larger than upper, arista with long hairs, acrostichals in rows close together, prealar bristle long, scutellum covered in small hairs, tibiae yellow to dark brown, two posterodorsal bristles on hind tibia with lower longer. See also diptera.info for discrimination from European species.

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Range
A common European species introduced to Northeastern United States in the 1920s. There are disjunct Northeastern and Pacific Northwest populations.
See Also
Zaphne divisa has whiter calpyters.
Contributed by John F. Carr on 1 June, 2012 - 5:05am
Additional contributions by Bbarnd
Last updated 4 March, 2022 - 6:55pm

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