Anthomyia
| Anthomyia | |
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| Anthomyia pluvialis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Anthomyiidae |
| Subfamily: | Anthomyiinae |
| Tribe: | Anthomyini |
| Genus: | Anthomyia Meigen, 1803 |
| Type species | |
| Musca pluvialis Linnaeus, 1758 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Anthomyia is a genus of fly in the family Anthomyiidae.[1] They look rather like small houseflies, but commonly have conspicuous black-and-white patterning.[2] This appears to be a mild form of aposematic coloration, though they do not appear to be distasteful unless they have eaten something offensive to the predator and have loaded their guts with it.
Specimen from wild pigeon's nest
Anthomyia procellaris laying eggs into faeces on a stump of tree
Species
- A. bazini Séguy, 1929
- A. cannabina (Stein, 1916)
- A. canningsi Griffiths, 2001
- A. confusanea Michelsen in Michelsen & Báez, 1985
- A. facialis (Malloch, 1918)
- A. imbrida Róndani, 1866
- A. liturata (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830)
- A. maura (Stein in Becker, 1908)
- A. mimetica (Malloch, 1918)
- A. monilis (Meigen, 1826)
- A. nigriceps (Huckett, 1946)
- A. obscuripennis (Bigot, 1886)
- A. ochripes Thomson, 1869
- A. oculifera Bigot, 1885
- A. plurinotata Brullé, 1833
- A. pluvialis (Linnaeus, 1758, 1758)
- A. procellaris Róndani, 1866
- A. quinquemaculata Macquart, 1839
- A. tempestatum Wiedemann, 1830
- A. xanthopus (Hennig, 1976)
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References
- ↑ Pont, Adrian C.; Ackland, David M. (1995). "Fanniidae, Muscidae and Anthomyiidae associated with Burrows of the Alpine Marmot Marmota marmota LENNAEUS) in the Upper Ötz Valley (Tyrol, Austria) (Inserta, Diptera)" (PDF Adobe Acrobat). Ber. nat.-med. Verein Innsbruck Band (Innsbruck) 82: 319–324.
- ↑ Alan Weaving; Mike Picker; Griffiths, Charles Llewellyn (2003). Field Guide to Insects of South Africa. New Holland Publishers, Ltd. ISBN 1-86872-713-0.