| Leucopis | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Chamaemyiidae |
| Subfamily: | Chamaemyiinae |
| Tribe: | Leucopini |
| Genus: | Leucopis Meigen, 1830 |
| Type species | |
| Anthomyza griseola Fallén, 1823 | |
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The Chamaemyiidae are a small family of acalyptrate flies with less than 200 species described worldwide. The larvae of these small flies are active and predatory and are often used for biological control of aphids, scale insects, and similar pests. Chamaemyiid fossils are poorly represented in amber deposits, but a few examples are known from the Eocene epoch onwards.
Opomyzidae is a family of acalyptrate Diptera. They are generally small, slender, yellow, brown or black coloured flies. The larval food plants are grasses, including cereal crops, the adults are mainly found in open habitats. Some species being agricultural pests.
The Coelopidae or kelp flies are a family of Acalyptratae flies, they are sometimes also called seaweed flies, although both terms are used for a number of seashore Diptera. Fewer than 40 species occur worldwide. The family is found in temperate areas, with species occurring in the southern Afrotropical, Holarctic, and Australasian regions.
Paracantha is a genus of fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.
Lespesia is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.
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Tachininae is a subfamily of flies in the family Tachinidae.
Chamaemyia is a genus of flies in the family Chamaemyiidae. It is the type genus of its family.
Caricea is a genus of house flies, in the family Muscidae. There are at least 30 described species in Caricea.
Anevrina is a genus of phorid flies circumscribed by the Italian naturalist Paolo Lioy in 1864.
Leucophora is a genus of root-maggot flies in the family Anthomyiidae. There are at least 60 described species in Leucophora.
Limnellia is a genus of shore flies in the family Ephydridae.
Clusiodes is a genus of flies in the family Clusiidae. There are at least 70 described species in Clusiodes.
Brontaea is a genus of house flies, insects in the family Muscidae. There are about five described species in Brontaea.
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