Species Hydrophoria lancifer

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · See Also

root-maggot fly - Hydrophoria lancifer - female

Anthomyiidae - Root-Maggot Flies Hydrophoria lancifer - Hydrophoria lancifer - male

Root-Maggot Flies Hydrophoria lancifer - Hydrophoria lancifer - female

Anthomyiidae, dorsal - 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.

Genitalia images

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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