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Muscidae - other subfamilies (in development)

Authors: Even Dankowicz

Last updated: May 2019

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Other Muscidae of the United States, Canada

Coenosiinae - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zERXeiico6d2GBojm0hdsNVMlDcGDMc3/edit#slide=id.p2

Muscinae - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1q-Vff36C4tKSTbzf9uRDdc3yitOYYkJN/edit#slide=id.g633467722a_0_0

  • Atherigona
  • Azelia
  • Brontaea
  • Drymeia
  • Graphomya
  • Hebecnema
  • Helina
  • Hydrotaea
  • Lophosceles
  • Muscina
  • Mydaea
  • Myospila meditabunda
  • Neomuscina
  • Opsolasia orichalcea
  • Phaonia
  • Philornis
  • Polietes
  • Polietina pruinosa
  • Potamia
  • Synthesiomyia nudiseta
  • Thricops

P. chagnoni, WI, © Ilona L., BugGuide / CC BY-ND-NC

P. undata, VA, © pbedell, iNaturalist / CC BY-NC

Hyperoscelis eximia © Unspecified, Tromso University Museum, BoldSystems / CC-BY-NC-SA

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Atherigona

  • Small-bodied
  • Grey scutum
  • Orange abdomen
  • Frontal stripe anteriorly orange, posteriorly black

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southern

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Azelia

  • Up to 5.5 mm, small-bodied
  • M vein not curved forward
  • Large, bright red male eyes

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widespread

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Brontaea

  • M vein at most slightly curved forward
  • Small-bodied

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widespread

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B. debilis

TX, FL

B. delecta

Widespread

B. humilis

Widespread

B. normata

Central America

B. quadristigma

Southern

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Drymeia

  • M vein not bent forward
  • Black, bristly
  • Robust yet elongate-bodied

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Widespread, common alpine

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Graphomya

  • M distinctly curved forward
  • Black scutum with tomentose stripes
  • Robust-bodied

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widespread

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Hebecnema

  • M vein not curved forward
  • Small-bodied
  • Dark, unpatterned

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widespread

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Helina

  • Large, somewhat robust-bodied, not elongate
  • M vein not curved forward
  • Crossveins often infuscated

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widespread

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Hydrotaea

  • M vein at most slightly bent forward
  • Relatively robust
  • Includes common shiny black-bodied Muscidae

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widespread

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Lophosceles

  • ?

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Far northern or high-altitude

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Muscina

  • M vein apically at least somewhat curved forward
  • Relatively large, robust-bodied
  • Mostly tomentose scutum, resembling Calliphora

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widespread

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Mydaea

  • M vein not curved forward.
  • Relatively robust-bodied

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widespread

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Myospila meditabunda

  • M distinctly somewhat curved forward
  • grey scutum with 4 black stripes

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widespread

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Neomuscina

  • M1 apically strongly curved forward, with bulging posterior margin

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https://bugguide.net/node/view/195931

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TX, FL

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Opsolasia orichalcea

  • M vein not curved forward.

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Far northern

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Phaonia

  • M distinctly curved forward
  • Crossveins often infuscate

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widespread

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Philornis

  • M vein bent forward, but ending far posterior of wing apex

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TX, FL

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Polietes

  • ?
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widespread

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Polietina pruinosa

  • ?

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S TX

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Potamia

  • Robust-bodied
  • M vein curved forward

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widespread

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Synthesiomyia nudiseta

  • M curved strongly forward
  • Scutum with 5 tomentose stripes
  • Abdomen grey-black, apically red

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southern

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Thricops

  • Robust-bodied
  • M vein not curved forward

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widespread

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Hawaiian species

  • Muscina levida, M. stabulans
  • Synthesiomyia nudiseta
  • Hydrotaea aenescens, H. chalcogaster, H. hughi
  • Atherigona hendersoni, A. orientalis, A. reversura
  • Brontaea quadristigma
  • Graphomya occidentalis

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References

Sources for this entire project include:

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References

Other sources consulted for this specific document include:

  • Steyskal, 1978. Synopsis of the North American Pyrgotidae (Diptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 80(2), 149-155.
  • Australasian Catalog of Diptera, http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/aocat/muscidae.html

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Special thanks to the work of John F. Carr and Aaron Schusteff with this group on BugGuide.net.

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