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Subfamily Gymnomyzinae

small fly - Discocerina Diptera -? - Mosillus tibialis million dollar legs - Ochthera lauta Ochthera sp. (?) - Ochthera shore fly with raptorial front legs - Ochthera Confirm Ochthera? Possible to get to species? - Ochthera Flat-footed fly sp.? - Athyroglossa glaphyropus M. tibialis - Mosillus tibialis
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")
Superfamily Ephydroidea
Family Ephydridae (Shore Flies)
Subfamily Gymnomyzinae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Gymnomyzidae is an older name for Ephydridae, but fell out of use. It was reestablished as a subfamily name in 1992. The genus name Gymnomyza is no longer used because it is considered a synonym of Mosillus.
Identification
Normally with presutural dorsocentral bristles absent, prescutellar acrostichals small and close together, and reclinate froto-orbital bristle in front of proclinate.
Print References
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1993. EPHYDRIDAE Zetterstedt, 1837 (Insecta, Diptera): given precedence over GYMNOMYZIDAE Latreille, 1829. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 50:259-260 (biostor)
Contributed by John F. Carr on 16 November, 2013 - 1:25pm
Last updated 17 November, 2013 - 3:07pm

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