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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Xylophagidae

Family Xylophagidae

Arthropeas · Coenomyia · Dialysis · Rachicerus · Xylophagus

Genus Arthropeas
Brown Fly - Arthropeas americana - female Brown Fly - Arthropeas americana Arthropeas sp (brown fly) - Arthropeas americana Arthropeas sp (brown fly) - Arthropeas americana Arthropeas sp (brown fly) - Arthropeas americana Fly - Arthropeas americana Diptera - Arthropeas americana Snipe Fly? Orange and Black - Arthropeas americana - male

Genus Coenomyia
unknown fly - Coenomyia ferruginea - female Xylophagidae, lateral - Coenomyia ferruginea - female Large reddish fly - Coenomyia ferruginea - female big rufous fly? - Coenomyia ferruginea - female pupa case and fly i.d. - Coenomyia ferruginea Coenomyia ferruginea Coenomyia ferruginea Coenomyia ferruginea? - Coenomyia ferruginea

Genus Dialysis
Dialysis rufithorax - female Fly - Dialysis Fly - Dialysis Fly ID Request - Dialysis Xylophagid - Dialysis elongata - male fly - Dialysis dispar - male Fly - Dialysis elongata - female Dialysis aldrichi - Dialysis dispar - male

Genus Rachicerus
Xylophagidae: Rachicerus obscuripennis - Rachicerus obscuripennis - male Xylophagid? - Rachicerus fulvicollis - female Fly - Rachicerus obscuripennis - female small Fly? - Rachicerus obscuripennis Asilidae? Mydidae? - Rachicerus obscuripennis *FLY* ID Request - Rachicerus nitidus Xylomyidae? - Rachicerus obscuripennis - male 3327 - Rachicerus honestus

Genus Xylophagus
Meadow Fly - Xylophagus decorus - female Xylophagus lugens? - Xylophagus cinctus - male Xylophagus lugens? - Xylophagus cinctus - male Unknown fly - Xylophagus lugens Unknown - Xylophagus Xylophagidae, spent pupa, lateral - Xylophagus Fluorescent Xylophagidae Larva - Xylophagus Xylophagus


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