Genus Caricea

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Remarks

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Calyptratae)

Superfamily Muscoidea

Family Muscidae (House Flies and kin)

Subfamily Coenosiinae

Tribe Coenosiini

Genus Caricea

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Caricea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

Lispocephala Pokorny, 1893

Identification

2 reclinate orbital bristles and 2 inclinate frontal bristles

Remarks

Species:

acuticauda Huckett 1966, California

aemulata Huckett 1972, Maine

alma Meigen 1826, Holarctic south to Tennessee

brevitarsis Malloch 1935, far north south to Colorado in mountains

eludens Huckett 1965, Yukon Territory

erythrocera Robineau-Desvoidy 1830, Holarctic south to Florida

nearctica Huckett 1965, western Canada south to mountains of California

setipes Malloch 1935, Western USA

spuria Zetterstedt? (listed on ITIS) (Systema Dipterorum includes New Hampshire in range)

tinctinervis Malloch, boreal

varians Malloch, northern Canada and Alaska

verna Fabricius, Holarctic south to New Hampshire

Contributed by A.W. Thomas on 15 March, 2007 - 9:25pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Vox Sciurorum, Arturo Santos
Last updated 1 October, 2023 - 12:18pm

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