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Sciomyzoidea Genera
Sciomyzoidea is a superfamily of Acalyptratae flies. The families placed here include at least the following: * Coelopidae – seaweed flies * Dryomyzidae * Helcomyzidae * Helosciomyzidae * Heterocheilidae * Huttoninidae * Natalimyzidae * Phaeomyiidae * Ropalomeridae * Sciomyzidae – marsh flies, snail-killing flies (including Huttoninidae, Phaeomyiidae, Tetanoceridae) * Sepsidae The Sepsidae are a family (biology), family of Fly, flies, commonly called the black scavenger flies or ensign flies. Over 300 species are described worldwide. They are usually found around dung or decaying plant and animal material. Many species ... – scavenger flies References External links * Diptera superfamilies Taxa named by Carl Fredrik Fallén {{Sciomyzoidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imago
In biology, the imago (Latin for "image") is the last stage an insect attains during its metamorphosis, its process of growth and development; it is also called the ''imaginal'' stage ("imaginal" being "imago" in adjective form), the stage in which the insect attains maturity. It follows the final ecdysis of the immature instars. In a member of the Ametabola or Hemimetabola, species in which metamorphosis is "incomplete", the final ecdysis follows the last immature or '' nymphal'' stage. In members of the Holometabola, in which there is a pupal stage, the final ecdysis follows emergence from the pupa A pupa (; : pupae) is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation between immature and mature stages. Insects that go through a pupal stage are holometabolous: they go through four distinct stages in their life cycle, the stages th ..., after which the metamorphosis is complete, although there is a prolonged period of maturation in some species. The imago is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helosciomyzidae
The Helosciomyzidae are a small family of flies found exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere. With the exception of the South American genus '' Sciogriphoneura'', helosciomyzids occur only in Australia and New Zealand (including The Snares and the Auckland Islands). Taxonomy and history The earliest grouping of helosciomyzid genera was as a subfamily of Sciomyzidae, Helosciomyzinae, proposed by George C. Steyskal in 1965 and which initially consisted of the genera ''Helosciomyza'', ''Xenosciomyza'', and ''Polytocus'', with the monotypic genus ''Eurotocus'' added to this grouping by Steyskal in 1978. Helosciomyzinae was elevated to family rank by G. C. D. Griffiths in 1972, including the genera ''Huttonina'' and ''Prosochaeta'', which Steyskal had previously classified as belonging to the sciomyzid subfamily Huttoninidae and which were later excluded from Helosciomyzidae in a 1981 revision of the family by Jeffrey K. Barnes. In this same 1981 revision Barnes added five new genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sciomyzoidea
Sciomyzoidea is a Taxonomic rank, superfamily of Acalyptratae fly, flies. The family (biology), families placed here include at least the following: * Coelopidae – seaweed flies * Dryomyzidae * Helcomyzidae * Helosciomyzidae * Heterocheilidae * Huttoninidae * Natalimyzidae * Phaeomyiidae * Ropalomeridae * Sciomyzidae – marsh flies, snail-killing flies (including Huttoninidae, Phaeomyiidae, Tetanoceridae) * Sepsidae – scavenger flies References External links * Sciomyzoidea, Diptera superfamilies Taxa named by Carl Fredrik Fallén {{Sciomyzoidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sepsidae
The Sepsidae are a family (biology), family of Fly, flies, commonly called the black scavenger flies or ensign flies. Over 300 species are described worldwide. They are usually found around dung or decaying plant and animal material. Many species ant mimicry, resemble ants, having a "waist" and glossy black body. Many Sepsidae have a curious wing-waving habit made more apparent by dark patches at the wing end. Many species have a very wide distribution, reflecting the coprophagous habit of most Sepsidae. Some species have been spread over large territories in association with livestock. Adult flies are found mostly on mammal Feces, excrement, including that of humans (less often on other rotting organic matter), where eggs are laid and larvae develop, and on nearby vegetation, carrion, fermenting tree sap, and shrubs and herbs. Many Sepsidae apparently play an important biological role as decomposers of mammal and other animal excrement. Some species may have a limited hygieni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ropalomeridae
The Ropalomeridae are a family of acalyptrate flies. Description Ropalomeridae are robust flies of body length, with a superficial resemblance to the Sarcophagidae in terms of body colour. The hind femora are conspicuously enlarged and the hind tibia is often laterally flattened and broadened and with broad, excavated vertex. Biology The biology of ropalomerid flies is little known, although they are thought to associated with rotting wood. Classification The Ropalomeridae currently comprise about 30 species distributed in 9 genera. '' Ropalomera'' is by far the largest genus of the family, with 15 known species. These nine genera belong to the family Ropalomeridae: * '' Acrocephalomyia'' Ibáñez-Bernal & Hernández-Ortiz, 2012 * '' Apophorhynchus'' Williston, 1895 * '' Dactylissa'' Fischer, 1932 * '' Kroeberia'' Linder, 1930 * '' Lenkokroeberia'' Prado, 1966 * '' Mexicoa'' Steyskal, 1947 * '' Rhytidops'' Lindner, 1930 * '' Ropalomera'' Wiedemann, 1824 * '' Willistoniella'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phaeomyiidae
The family Sciomyzidae belongs to the typical flies (Brachycera) of the order Diptera. They are commonly called marsh flies, and in some cases snail-killing flies due to the food of their larvae. Here, the Huttoninidae, Phaeomyiidae and Tetanoceridae are provisionally included in the Sciomyzidae. Particularly the latter seem to be an unequivocal part of this group and are ranked as tribe of subfamily Sciomyzinae by most modern authors, while the former two are very small lineages that may or may not stand outside the family and are provisionally ranked as subfamilies here. Whether the Salticellinae and the group around '' Sepedon'' warrant recognition as additional subfamilies or are better included in the Sciomyzinae proper is likewise not yet entirely clear. Altogether, the main point of contention is the relationship between the "Huttoninidae", "Phaeomyiidae", Sciomyzidae ''sensu stricto'', and the Helosciomyzidae which were also once included in the Sciomyzidae. Sciomyzida ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalimyzidae
''Natalimyza'' is a genus of flies placed in the family Natalimyzidae and known as African grass flies. There are about 30 species in Africa which are found mainly in grasslands where their larvae are thought to feed on decaying plant material. They are small (less than long) yellow to brown and appear like flies in the families Chyromyidae or Opomyzidae Opomyzidae is a family of Acalyptratae, acalyptrate Fly, Diptera. They are generally small, slender, yellow, brown or black coloured flies. The larval food plants are grasses, including cereal crops, the adults are mainly found in open habitats. ..., but differentiated by bristles on the head, having four fronto-orbital bristles. References {{taxonbar, from=Q5484956 Brachycera families Brachycera genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huttoninidae
The family Sciomyzidae belongs to the typical flies (Brachycera) of the order Diptera. They are commonly called marsh flies, and in some cases snail-killing flies due to the food of their larvae. Here, the Huttoninidae, Phaeomyiidae and Tetanoceridae are provisionally included in the Sciomyzidae. Particularly the latter seem to be an unequivocal part of this group and are ranked as tribe of subfamily Sciomyzinae by most modern authors, while the former two are very small lineages that may or may not stand outside the family and are provisionally ranked as subfamilies here. Whether the Salticellinae and the group around '' Sepedon'' warrant recognition as additional subfamilies or are better included in the Sciomyzinae proper is likewise not yet entirely clear. Altogether, the main point of contention is the relationship between the "Huttoninidae", "Phaeomyiidae", Sciomyzidae ''sensu stricto'', and the Helosciomyzidae which were also once included in the Sciomyzidae. Sciomyzida ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heterocheilidae
''Heterocheila'' is a genus of acalyptrate true flies (Diptera). They are placed in their own family, Heterocheilidae, in the superfamily Sciomyzoidea. They are not widely familiar outside entomological circles, but the common name "half-bridge flies" has been associated with them.McAlpine, D. K. 1991. Relationships of the genus Heterocheila (Diptera: Sciomyzoidea) with description of a new family. Tijdschr. Ent. 134: 193-199. [1991.12.18online/ref> They are medium-sized flies occurring mainly in temperate regions on seashores of the Northern Hemisphere, where they and their larvae typically feed on stranded kelp in the wrack zone. In this, they resemble Coelopidae, kelp flies, which are members of a different family, though the same superfamily. The family Heterocheilidae was established by McAlpine in 1991. He distinguished it from other families to which ''Heterocheila'' had hitherto been referred at various times and by various authorities – Helcomyzidae, Dryomyzidae and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helcomyzidae
The Helcomyzidae are a small family of flies in the Acalyptratae. The larvae feed on kelp and other organic matter washed up on shorelines. Species diversity is highest in New Zealand and south temperate South America. They are sometimes allied with the families Dryomyzidae or Coelopidae. Classification *Genus: '' Helcomyza'' Curtis, 1825 :*'' Helcomyza mediterranea'' Loew, 1854 :*'' Helcomyza mirabilis'' Melander, 1920 :*'' Helcomyza ustulata'' Curtis, 1825 *Genus: '' Maorimyia'' Tonnoir & Malloch, 1928 :*'' Maorimyia bipunctata'' ( Hutton, 1901) *Genus: '' Paractora'' Bigot, 1888 :*'' Paractora angustata'' Malloch, 1933 :*'' Paractora antarctica'' (Thomson Thomson may refer to: Names * Thomson (surname), a list of people with this name and a description of its origin * Thomson baronets, four baronetcies created for persons with the surname Thomson Businesses and organizations * SGS-Thomson M ..., 1869) :*'' Paractora asymmetrica'' ( Enderlein, 1930) :*'' Paractor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sepedon Sphegea
''Sepedon sphegea'' is a Palearctic species of fly in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies. The larva feeds on aquatic snails and as an opportunist on other invertebrates.Neff S. E. & Berg C. O. 1966. Biology and immature stages of malacophagous diptera of the genus ''Sepedon'' (Sciomyzidae). ''Virginia Agricultural Experiment Stations Bulletin'', 566: 1-113. The habitat of this species includes among many others, pond margins and damp meadows. It has a particular fondness for ''Iris pseudacorus ''Iris pseudacorus'', the yellow flag, yellow iris, or water flag, is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae. It is native to Europe, western Asia and northwest Africa. Its specific epithet ''pseudacorus'' means "false acorus", r ...'' which grow at the edges of the pond. Adults can be found all year long but the main flight period is from March to October. File:Sepedon sphegea - 2014-05-21.webm, thumbtime=1:51, ''Sepedon sphegea'' feeding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dryomyzidae
The Dryomyzidae are a small family of flies ranging from 4–18 mm long, with prominent bristles, and yellow to brown or rust-yellow coloring. The wings are very large. The subcosta is complete and well separated from vein 1. Larvae feed on decaying organic matter - carrion, dung, and fungi. The prelambrum protrudes from the oral cavity. Vibrissae are absent and the postvertical bristles are divergent. The roughly 22 species are placed in 6 genera (with two additional genera known only as fossils). Dryomyzid flies are found principally in the Holarctic, though some are found in the Southern Hemisphere. Very little is known of the habits of the adults or immatures, but adults are found in moist, shady habits among low-growing vegetation. Classification *Subfamily: Dryomyzinae Schiner, 1862 **Genus: '' Dryomyza'' Fallén, 1820 ***'' D. amblia'' Kurahashi, 1981 ***'' D. anilis'' Fallén, 1820 ***'' D. badia'' Kurahashi, 1981 ***'' D. caucasica'' Ozerov, 1987 ***'' D. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
