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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Carnoidea » Canacidae

Family Canacidae

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Works Cited
Tethinid Fly - Tethina Fly 9 - Pelomyia beach fly - Tethina Tide pool fly Unknown Fly amorous flies - Tethina parvula - male - female Philygria? - Pelomyia Fly - Canaceoides nudatus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")
Superfamily Carnoidea
Family Canacidae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Tethinidae are now included here(1)
Explanation of Names
Canacidae Jones 1906
Numbers
~30 spp. in ~9 genera our area(2), >320 spp. in ~30 genera total(3)
Size
1-3.5 mm(2)
Works Cited
1.World Catalog of the Family Canacidae (including Tethinidae) (Diptera), with keys to the supraspecific taxa
Munari, L. & W. M. Mathis. 2010. Zootaxa 2471:1–84.
2.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
3.Order Diptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification...
Pape T., Blagoderov V., Mostovski M.B. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 222–229.
Contributed by Matthias Buck on 23 February, 2013 - 9:39pm
Additional contributions by Keith Bayless, v belov
Last updated 25 December, 2014 - 7:43pm

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