Canacidae

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Canacidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Suborder: Brachycera
Section: Schizophora
Subsection: Acalyptratae
Superfamily: Carnoidea
Family: Canacidae

Canacidae, incorrectly Canaceidae, or beach flies, surf or surge flies, is a family of Diptera.There are 113 species in 12 genera.

[edit] Family description

See [1] Excellent drawings of Canace.

[edit] Biology

Canacidae are intertidal flies.

[edit] References

  • Mathis, W.N.1992 World Catalog of the Beach-Fly Family Canacidae (Diptera). Smithson. Contr. Zool. 536, 18 pp.
  • Mathis, W.N. 1998. Family Canacidae. I: Papp, L. and Darvas, B. Contributions to a Manual of palaearctic Diptera. 3: 251-257. Science Herald, Budapest.

Mathis, W.N. and Freidberg, A. Review of Afrotropical beach flies of the tribe Canacini and subfamily Nocticanacinae (Diptera: Canacidae)Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington (Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash.) ISSN 0013-8797


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