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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
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"Acalyptratae"
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Thick-headed Flies (Conopidae)
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Myopinae
Subfamily Myopinae
Classification
Kingdom
Animalia (Animals)
Phylum
Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum
Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class
Insecta (Insects)
Order
Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon
("Acalyptratae")
Superfamily
Sciomyzoidea
Family
Conopidae (Thick-headed Flies)
Subfamily
Myopinae
Numbers
~40 spp. in 4 genera in our area
(
1
)
Food
Hosts include bees and other Aculeata
Works Cited
1.
American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
Contributed by
Keith Bayless
on 4 March, 2007 - 7:36pm
Additional contributions by
Beatriz Moisset
,
v belov
Last updated 15 September, 2020 - 6:33pm