Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Oedoparena

Shoreline fly - Oedoparena glauca Shoreline fly - Oedoparena glauca Oedoparena species? - Oedoparena glauca Unknown diptera - Oedoparena glauca beach fly Saltspring - Oedoparena glauca beach fly Saltspring - Oedoparena glauca Fucellia? - Oedoparena - male - female Fucellia? - Oedoparena - male - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")
Superfamily Sciomyzoidea
Family Dryomyzidae
Genus Oedoparena
Explanation of Names
Oedoparena Curran 1934
Numbers
2 species in our area
Range
Pacific Coast from Alaska to California
Food
Larvae are specialized predators of barnacles