Genus Alliopsis

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Food · Internet References

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 Alliopsis

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Includes Paraprosalpia, Circia, and Pseudochirosia.

Identification

Dark colored. Often with hairy eyes. Species near A. silvestris have female fore tarsomeres 2-3 or 2-5 expanded (but not 2-4 as in some Eutrichota). Often with male and female eyes equally spaced (either with eyes close together like typical male Anthomyiidae, or with eyes far apart like typical female).

Range

Mostly northern.

Food

Adults are predators.

Internet References

Huckett, H. C. (1950). The genus Paraprosalpia (Villeneuve) in North America, (=Prosalpia Pokorny preoc.) Muscidae. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, Vol. 45: 121-132, 133-143, 1 pl. (Biodiversity Heritage Library)

Contributed by John F. Carr on 4 May, 2014 - 6:09pm
Additional contributions by Arturo Santos
Last updated 3 July, 2020 - 6:42pm

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