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Species Tritoxa flexa - Black Onion Fly

Black fly with white striped wings - Tritoxa flexa

Tritoxa flexa (Black Onion Fly) - 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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