'' Calliopum'' is a genus of small
flies of the family
Lauxaniidae
The Lauxaniidae are a family of acalyptrate flies. They generally are small flies (length 7 mm or less) with large compound eyes that often are brightly coloured in life, sometimes with characteristic horizontal stripes, such as in '' Cestr ...
.
Description
Most, but not all, are luscious black or metallic flies.
They are smaller than 5 mm and usually have iridescent eyes. Adults can be found from May until December in meadows and hedge rows.
[Commanster]
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Saprotrophic nutrition or lysotrophic nutrition is a process of chemoheterotrophic extracellular digestion involved in the processing of decayed (dead or waste) organic matter. It occurs in saprotrophs, and is most often associated with fungi ( ...
, mainly feeding on rotting vegetable matter or mining clover leaves.
Distribution
These species are present on most of Europe, in the eastern Palearctic realm, in the Near East
The ''Near East''; he, המזרח הקרוב; arc, ܕܢܚܐ ܩܪܒ; fa, خاور نزدیک, Xāvar-e nazdik; tr, Yakın Doğu is a geographical term which roughly encompasses a transcontinental region in Western Asia, that was once the hist ...
and in North Africa.[Fauna Europaea]
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Species
*'' C. acrostichalis'' Sasakawa & Kozanek, 1995
*'' C. aeneum'' ( Fallén, 1820)Fabricius Fabricius ( la, smith, german: Schmied, Schmidt) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*people from the Ancient Roman gens Fabricia:
**Gaius Fabricius Luscinus, the first of the Fabricii to move to Rome
* Johann Goldsmid (1587 ...
, 1805)Coquillett
Daniel William Coquillett (23 January 1856, Pleasant Valley, Ill. – 7 July 1911 Atlantic City, New Jersey) was an American entomologist who specialised in Diptera. He wrote a revision of the dipterous family Therevidae and many other scientifi ...
, 1898)
*'' C. nigerrimum'' ( Melander, 1913)
*'' C. oosterbroeki'' Shatalkin, 2000Czerny Czerny is a surname meaning "black" in some Slavic languages. It is one of many variant forms, including Czarny, Černý, Czernik, Cherney, and Čierny, among others.
People
Notable people with this surname include:
*Adalbert Czerny (1863−1941 ...
, 1935
*'' C. quadrisetosum'' (Thomson, 1869)
*'' C. rufipes'' (Czerny Czerny is a surname meaning "black" in some Slavic languages. It is one of many variant forms, including Czarny, Černý, Czernik, Cherney, and Čierny, among others.
People
Notable people with this surname include:
*Adalbert Czerny (1863−1941 ...
, 1932)Curran
Curran may refer to:
People
* Curran (surname)
* Curran Oi (born 1990), an American figure skater
Material
* Curran (material)
Places
*Curran, community in Alfred and Plantagenet, Ontario, Canada
;Northern Ireland
* Curran, County Londonderry ...
, 1926)
*'' C. simillimum'' ( Collin, 1933)
References
External links
Biolib
University of Michigan, ''Calliopum'' tree
Lauxaniidae
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Muscomorph flies of Europe
Schizophora genera
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