Genus Hylemya

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited

Fly astride peony bud - Hylemya alcathoe

Sarcophagidae or Tachinidae? - Hylemya alcathoe - male

Fly on Mushroom - Hylemya alcathoe - male

deer scat fly - Hylemya partita - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Calyptratae)

Superfamily Muscoidea

Family Anthomyiidae (Root-Maggot Flies)

Genus Hylemya

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Formerly a very large genus, Hylemya contains only three North American species since Delia and other former subgenera were removed. European authors exclude Hylemyza as well; by that classification only two species remain in North America.

Identification

Arista with hairs as long as or longer than width of third antenna segment, katepisternal bristles 2:2, row of bristles across middle of tergites 4 and 5. Also with the following characters typical of Anthomyiidae: proboscis normal, eye bare, lower calypter not larger than upper, middle of proepisternum and upper edge of katepimeron without hairs, presutural acrostichals well developed, dorsocentrals 2+3.(1)(2)

Range

Widespread in North America

Food

Larvae in mammal dung (deer for partita, cattle for alcathoe).

Works Cited

1.	Manual of Nearctic Diptera Volume 2 Varies for each chapter; edited by J.F. McAlpine, B.V. Petersen, G.E. Shewell, H.J. Teskey, J.R. Vockeroth, D.M. Wood. 1987. Research Branch Agriculture Canada.

2.	The Muscidae of Northern Canada, Alaska, and Greenland (Diptera) Hugh C. Huckett. 1965. Entomological Society of Canada.

Contributed by John F. Carr on 8 March, 2013 - 6:25pm
Last updated 29 April, 2014 - 7:33pm

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