| Blastocera | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Stratiomyidae |
| Subfamily: | Pachygastrinae |
| Genus: | Blastocera Gerstaecker, 1857 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Blastocera speciosa Gerstaecker, 1857 [1] | |
Blastocera is a genus of flies in the family Stratiomyidae. [2]
The soldier flies are a family of flies. The family contains over 2,700 species in over 380 extant genera worldwide. Larvae are found in a wide array of locations, mostly in wetlands, damp places in soil, sod, under bark, in animal excrement, and in decaying organic matter. Adults are found near larval habitats. They are diverse in size and shape, though they commonly are partly or wholly metallic green, or somewhat wasplike mimics, marked with black and yellow or green and sometimes metallic. They are often rather inactive flies which typically rest with their wings placed one above the other over the abdomen.
Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker was a German zoologist, entomologist and professor at the University of Berlin and then the University of Greifswald.
Endomychidae, or handsome fungus beetles, is a family of beetles with representatives found in all biogeographic realms. There are around 120 genera and 1300 species. The family was established based on the type genus Endomychus, a genus erected in 1795 by Panzer which was applied to a species that Linnaeus called Chrysomela coccinea. As the common name suggests, Endomychidae feed on fungi. Crowson, in his influential treatment of the beetles, placed the family within the Cucujoidea. They have a tarsal formal of 4-4-4 or 3-3-3 and the wings lack a closed radial cell. The second antennal segment has a sensory appendage that is as long as the third antennal segment. The family has also been grouped with the Coccinellidae in a group called the Trimera for having pseudotrimerous tarsi. A 2015 molecular phylogeny study found that the Cucujoidea were found to be non-monophyletic and the Endomychidae was refined with the removal of the Anamorphinae from within the family and elevated to the status of a full family, Anamorphidae. Mycetaeinae and Eupsilobiinae were also found not to belong within the clades of the core Endomychidae, and likewise reclassified into the families Mycetaeidae and Eupsilobiidae.
Stratiomys is a genus of flies in the family Stratiomyidae.
Oxycerini is a tribe of flies in the family Stratiomyidae.
Stratiomyinae is a subfamily of flies in the family Stratiomyidae.
Clitellariinae is a subfamily of flies in the family Stratiomyidae.
Pachygastrinae is a subfamily of flies in the family Stratiomyidae.
Eumorphus is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Endomychidae.
Cyphomyia is a genus of flies in the subfamily Clitellariinae.
Euparyphus is a genus of flies in the family Stratiomyidae.
Adoxomyia is a genus of soldier flies in the family Stratiomyidae.
Hedriodiscus is a genus of flies in the family Stratiomyidae.
Stenotarsus is a genus of handsome fungus beetles in the family Endomychidae. There are more than 50 described species in Stenotarsus.
Ptilocera is a genus of flies in the family Stratiomyidae.
Chordonota is a genus of flies in the family Stratiomyidae.
Pycnomalla is a genus of flies in the family Stratiomyidae.
Cibotogaster is a genus of flies in the family Stratiomyidae.
Panacris is a genus of flies in the family Stratiomyidae.
Zuerchermyia is a genus of flies in the family Stratiomyidae.