Genus Pholeomyia

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Habitat · Print References · Works Cited

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")

Superfamily Carnoidea

Family Milichiidae (Freeloader Flies)

Subfamily Milichiinae

Genus Pholeomyia

Explanation of Names

Pholeomyia Bilimek 1867

Numbers

12 described species in America north of Mexico(1), ~40 total(2)

Range

New World & tropical W. Africa(2)

Habitat

"Pholeomyia species have been reared from the nests of leaf-cutting ants, where the larvae develop in the detritus of the fungus gardens. Other species develop in the nests of leaf-cutting bees (Megachile) or in bat dung found in caves."(2)

Print References

Sabrosky C. W. (1959) A revision of the genus Pholeomyia in North America (Diptera, Milichiidae). Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 52: 316-331.

Sabrosky C.W. (1961) Three new Nearctic acalypterate Diptera. Entomological News 72: 229-234.

Works Cited

1.	A Catalog of the Diptera of America North of Mexico Alan Stone, et al. 1965. United States Department of Agriculture.

2.	Brake I. (2007-) Milichiidae online

Contributed by John F. Carr on 25 July, 2013 - 1:40pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, v belov
Last updated 14 April, 2016 - 11:44pm

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