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SCIOMYZIDAE (snail-killing flies)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos
Sciomyzidae? In cop. 28 May 2008 South-west Yorkshire England 3
Sciomyzidae? Imago 5 May 2007 Oxon England 1
Sciomyzidae? Imago 27 June 2006 East Sussex England 6

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #refs #webs
Species Coremacera marginata (F.) (a snail-killing fly)   1 17    
Species Euthycera fumigata (Scopoli) (a snail-killing fly)     4    
Species Hydromya dorsalis (Fabricius) (a snail-killing fly)     15    
Species Ilione albiseta (Scopoli, 1763) (a snail-killing fly)     4    
Genus Limnia (a genus of snail-killing flies) 1   8    
Genus Pherbellia (a genus of snail-killing flies) 4        
Species Pherbellia annulipes (Zetterstedt) (a snail-killing fly)     7    
Species Pherbellia cinerella (Fallen, 1820) (a snail-killing fly)   2 21    
Species Pherbellia dubia (Fallen) (a snail-killing fly)     1    
Species Pherbellia schoenherri (Fallen) (a snail-killing fly)       1 2
Species Sepedon spinipes (Scopoli, 1763) (a snail-killing fly)     6    
Genus Tetanocera (a genus of snail-killing flies) 4        
Species Tetanocera arrogans (Meigen) (a snail-killing fly)     6    
Species Tetanocera elata (Fabricius) (a snail-killing fly)       1 2
Species Tetanocera ferruginea Fallen, 1820 (a snail-killing fly)     19    
Species Tetanocera silvatica Meigen, 1830 (a snail-killing fly)     4    
Species Tetanura pallidiventris Fallen (a snail-killing fly)     1    
Species Trypetoptera punctulata (Scopoli) (a snail-killing fly)     9    

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Rozkosny, R., 1984 The Sciomyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark

General Works

Speight, M.C.D., 2004 Predicting impacts of changes in farm management on sciomyzids (Diptera, Sciomyzidae): a biodiversity case study from southern Ireland

SCIOMYZIDAE 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)
ACALYPTRATA
(acalypterate flies)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

SCIOMYZIDAE is associated with:

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

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

Associated with SCIOMYZIDAE:

Sciomyzidae may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

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

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