Atrichomelina

Atrichomelina is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.[2][3]

Atrichomelina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Family:
Sciomyzidae
Subfamily:
Sciomyzinae
Tribe:
Sciomyzini
Genus:
Atrichomelina

Cresson, 1920[1]
Type species
Sciomyza pubera
Loew, 1862

Biology

The larvae kill and consume aquatic pulmonate snails of various species.[4]

Species
  • A. pubera (Loew, 1862)
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References
  1. Cresson, E. T., Jr. (1920). "A Revision of the Nearctic Sciomyzidae (Diptera, Acalyptratae)". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. The American Entomological Society. 46: 27–89.
  2. Rozkošný, R. (1984). The Sciomyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica. 14. E.J. Brill/Scandinavian Science Press. pp. 224 pp. ISBN 90-04-07592-5.
  3. Knutson, Lloyd Vernon; Vala, Jean-Claude (2011). Biology of Snail-Killing Sciomyzidae Flies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–526. ISBN 978-0521867856.
  4. Foote, B. A.; Berg, C. O.; Neff, S. E. (1960). "Biology and immature stages of Atrichomelina pubera (Diptera: Sciomyzidae)". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. The Entomological Society of America. 53: 192–199. doi:10.1093/aesa/53.2.192.
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