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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
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Black Onion Fly (Tritoxa flexa)
Species
Tritoxa flexa
- Black Onion Fly
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
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1
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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