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Species Tritoxa flexa - Black Onion Fly

Representative Images

Unknown fly - Tritoxa flexa black picture wing - Tritoxa flexa fly - Tritoxa flexa Tritoxa flexa Tritoxa flexa Tritoxa flexa Black and white fly - Tritoxa flexa Tritoxa flexa

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")
Superfamily Tephritoidea
Family Ulidiidae (Picture-winged Flies)
Subfamily Otitinae
Tribe Cephaliini
Genus Tritoxa
Species flexa (Black Onion Fly)

Explanation of Names

Tritoxa flexa (Wiedemann 1830)

Range

se.SK‒so.MB to MS. In e.Canada, only known from Manitoulin and Pelee Is. in ON. Records from MA, NC, SC, AL are based on images BG & iNaturalist(1)

Habitat

associated with cultivated garlic

Works Cited

1.Revision of the Nearctic genus Tritoxa Loew (Diptera: Ulidiidae)
Bradley J. Sinclair, Alyssa M. Macleod, Terry A. Wheeler. 2021. Zootaxa.
Contributed by Cotinis on 21 July, 2006 - 5:00pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 7 December, 2023 - 10:18pm

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