Taxon profile

family

small dung flies
Sphaeroceridae Macquart, 1835

kingdom Animalia - animals » phylum Arthropoda - arthropods » class Insecta - insects » order Diptera - true flies, mosquitoes and gnats » superfamily Sphaeroceroidea

Scientific synonyms

Borboridae Stenhammar, 1854
Borborites Newman, 1834
Copromyzidae Stenhammar, 1855
Cypselidae Hendel, 1910
Sphoeroceridae Macquart, 1846 (misspelling) ^m

More >>

Images

Aptilotus paradoxus

Author: Rudolf Macek

Copromyza equina, female

Author: Miroslav Fiala

Pteremis fenestralis, female

Author: Miroslav Deml

Included taxa

Number of records: 10

subfamily Archiborborinae

subfamily Copromyzinae Stenhammar, 1855

subfamily Homalomitrinae Roháček & Marshall, 1998

subfamily Limosininae Frey, 1921

subfamily Sphaerocerinae Macquart, 1835

Unplaced taxa

genus Afromyia Kim, 1968

genus Palaeoceroptera Duda, 1929

genus Papualimosina Hayashi, 2006

genus Robustagramma Cui & Marshall, 2005

genus Safaria Richards, 1950

Links and literature

Checklist of Diptera of the Czech Republic and Slovakia [sphaeroceridae]

Jedlička L., Kúdela M., Stloukalová V.: Checklist of Diptera of the Czech Republic and Slovakia [http://www.edvis.sk/diptera2009/]

More >>

Search

Contributions to BioLib

Help us to expand this encyclopedia! If you are logged in, you can add new subtaxa, vernacular and scientific names, texts, images or intertaxon relationships for this taxon.

Comments