The family Pseudopomyzidae comprises minute to small (1.7-5.5 mm), dark-coloured
acalyptrate flies
Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advanced ...
; formerly they have been treated as a subfamily of
Cypselosomatidae
The Cypselosomatidae are a family of true flies (Diptera) closely related to the Micropezidae. Some species are believed to be associated with bat guano.
Distribution
They occur worldwide, including Australia
Australia, officially the ...
[Carvalho-Filho, Fernando da Silva, & Esposito, Maria Cristina. (2011). Redescription of ''Pseudopomyzella flava'' Hennig (Diptera: Cypselosomatidae) and the first record from Brazil. Biota Neotropica, 11(1), 195-197. https://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1676-06032011000100020]
Biology
The biology of pseudopomyzines is very poorly known. Most species are from the New World and Asia.
There is only one European species, ''
Pseudopomyza atrimana'' (
Meigen, 1830), which occurs in woodland, and adults have been found to gathering over rotting logs or attracted to the freshly cut and sappy stumps or logs of
deciduous
In the fields of horticulture and Botany, the term ''deciduous'' () means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, aft ...
trees.
Genera
*''
Latheticomyia''
Wheeler
Wheeler may refer to:
Places United States
* Wheeler, Alabama, an unincorporated community
* Wheeler, Arkansas, an unincorporated community
* Wheeler, California, an unincorporated community
* Wheeler, Illinois, a village
* Wheeler, Indiana, a ...
, 1956
*''
Heloclusia''
Malloch, 1933
*''
Macalpinella''
Papp, 2005
*''
Polypathomyia''
Krivosheina, 1979
*''
Pseudopomyza''
Strobl
Strobl (or Strobl am Wolfgangsee) is a municipality of the Salzburg-Umgebung District (''Flachgau''), in the northeastern portion of the Austrian state of Salzburg (state), Salzburg, right on the border with Upper Austria. It comprises the Katastr ...
, 1893
*''
Pseudopomyzella''
Hennig, 1969
*''
Rhinopomyzella''
Hennig, 1969
*''
Tenuia''
Malloch, 1926
Fossils
The
fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved ...
record is very poor, with only one specimen of the species, ''
Eopseudopomyza kuehni''
Hennig, 1971, which has been recorded from
Baltic
Baltic may refer to:
Peoples and languages
* Baltic languages, a subfamily of Indo-European languages, including Lithuanian, Latvian and extinct Old Prussian
*Balts (or Baltic peoples), ethnic groups speaking the Baltic languages and/or originati ...
amber
Amber is fossilized tree resin that has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times. Much valued from antiquity to the present as a gemstone, amber is made into a variety of decorative objects."Amber" (2004). In Ma ...
.
References
External links
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Diptera.infoImages of ''Pseudopomyza atrimana''
UK Pseudopomyzinae on the Dipterists Forum
Brachycera families
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