Chyromyidae

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Chyromyidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Diptera Suborder: Brachycera Infraorder: Muscomorpha Section: Schizophora Subsection: Acalyptratae Superfamily: Sphaeroceroidea Family: Chyromyidae

Chyromyidae is a family of flies (Diptera). The family is small with only (approximately) 50 species. They are little-studied group.

[edit] Biology

Xerophilic. Adults have been collected on flowering plants. Immatures are almost unknown, but adults have been reared from a variety of substrata including dung, mammal burrows, rotting wood and birds' nests (Ferrar, 1987)

[edit] Identification (Literature)

• Ebejer, M.J., 1998 A review of the Palaearctic species of Aphaniosoma Becker (Diptera:Chryomyidae) with descriptions of new species and a key for the identification of adults Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift 2, 45:191 – 230. All known Palaearctic species of Aphaniosoma Becker are reviewed