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Family Richardiidae

Sepsisoma flavescens - female Sepsisoma flavescens - female Sepsisoma flavescens tiny orange fly - Richardiidae? - Sepsisoma Richardiidae - Sepsisoma Epiplatea erosa Fruit Fly? Anything more specific? - Odontomera - female Sepsisoma? - Sepsisoma
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")
Superfamily Tephritoidea
Family Richardiidae
Explanation of Names
Richardiidae Loew 1868
Numbers
10 spp. in 6 genera in our area(1), ~180 spp. in 34 genera total(2)
Range
restricted to the Americas, esp. the Neotropics; in our area, more diverse in sw. US(1); the only widespread sp. is Odontomera ferruginea(3)
Food
Some larvae are plant feeders or saprophagous in decaying plant matter.
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.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.
3.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 1 December, 2006 - 2:37pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 22 February, 2024 - 9:40pm

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