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ACALYPTRATA (acalypterate flies)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Acalyptrata? Imago 19 May 2007 West Norfolk England 5

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #microphotos #refs #webs
Family AGROMYZIDAE (leaf-mining flies) 285 113 192 5 24 1012
Family ANTHOMYZIDAE (a family of flies)         1  
Family CAMILLIDAE (a family of flies)         1  
Family CHAMAEMYIIDAE (a family of flies) 2   1   2 1
Family CHLOROPIDAE (chloropid flies) 8   8   8 9
Family CLUSIIDAE (a family of flies)     2   1  
Family DROSOPHILIDAE (fruit or vinegar flies) 13   23 63 16 4
Family DRYOMYZIDAE (a family of flies) 3          
Genus Dryomyza (a genus of flies) 2       2  
Species Neuroctena anilis (Fall., 1820) (a fly)         1  
Family EPHYDRIDAE (shore flies) 5   2   5 13
Family HELEOMYZIDAE (a family of flies) 3 12 17   2  
Family LAUXANIIDAE (a family of flies) 9   13   5 1
Family LONCHAEIDAE (lance flies) 1   5   2  
Family MICROPEZIDAE (stilt flies) 3          
Species Micropeza corrigiolata (Linnaeus, 1767) (a stilt fly)   2        
Genus Neria (a genus of stilt flies) 2 1     1  
Family OPOMYZIDAE (opomyzid flies) 3   13   1  
Family PALLOPTERIDAE (a family of picture-wing flies) 4          
Genus Palloptera (a genus of picture-wing flies) 4 3 17   3  
Family PIOPHILIDAE (nest flies, cheese-skippers etc) 1          
Genus Piophila (cheese-skippers) 1       1  
Family PLATYSTOMATIDAE (a family of flies) 1 16 18   1  
Family PSILIDAE (carrot rust fly etc) 3   4   2 12
Family SCIOMYZIDAE (snail-killing flies) 16 7 128   4 4
Family SEPSIDAE (a family of lesser dung flies) 2 1 2   1 1
Family SPHAEROCERIDAE (lesser dung flies) 4       4 1
Family TEPHRITIDAE (gall flies, greater fruit flies) 75 79 177 4 11 440
Family ULIDIIDAE (a family of pictured-wing flies) 3          
Subfamily OTITINAE (a subfamily of pictured-wing flies) 3 5 16   1  

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Séguy, E., 1934 Diptère (Brachycéres) (Muscidae Acalypterae et Scatophagidae)

ACALYPTRATA may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

ACALYPTRATA is associated with:

There may be taxa associated with Acalyptrata listed at higher taxonomic level

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)
CYCLORRHAPHA
(a suborder of flies)

Associated with ACALYPTRATA:

Acalyptrata may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

ANIMALIA
(animals)
INSECTA
(insects)
DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

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