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Genus Nothomyia

small bronze-colored fly - Nothomyia calopus

Beridine soldier fly - Nothomyia calopus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)

Infraorder Stratiomyomorpha

Family Stratiomyidae (Soldier flies)

Subfamily Stratiomyinae

Tribe Prosopochrysini

Genus Nothomyia

Explanation of Names

Nothomyia Loew 1869

Numbers

2 spp. in our area, 18 spp. total(1)(2)

Range

mostly neotropical group (+2 spp. in so. Indo-Pacific) reaching FL(1)(2)

Works Cited

1.	Manual of Nearctic Diptera Volume 1 Varies for each chapter; edited by J.F. McAlpine, B.V. Petersen, G.E. Shewell, H.J. Teskey, J.R. Vockeroth, D.M. Wood. 1981. Research Branch Agriculture Canada.

2.	Bayless K. Stratiomyidae (in The Tree of Life Web Project)

Contributed by v belov on 10 December, 2012 - 2:47pm

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