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Genus Sapromyza

Small Orange Fly - Sapromyza rotundicornis

Unidentified Diptera - Sapromyza brachysoma

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")

Superfamily Lauxanioidea

Family Lauxaniidae

Genus Sapromyza

Explanation of Names

Sapromyza Fallén 1810

Numbers

9 described species in our area(1)

Identification

Face without spot around antenna, uniform row of hairs on parafacial, presutural supra-alar setae present, 3 dorsocentral setae present, postsutural intra-alar setae absent, face flat and dull, anterior katepisternal seta not hairlike, costal setulae ending befor R4+5, mesotibia with 1 spur, anepimeron bare(1)

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.

Contributed by Keith Bayless on 15 February, 2007 - 1:31am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 11 December, 2014 - 7:49am

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