| Opaluma | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Stratiomyidae |
| Subfamily: | Antissinae |
| Genus: | Opaluma Lessard & Woodley, 2020 [1] |
Opaluma is a genus of Australian soldier flies in the subfamily Antissinae.
Opaluma has seven species, all described by Bryan Lessard and Norman Woodley: [1]
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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.
Xylomyidae is a family of flies known commonly as the wood soldier flies. They are xylophagous and are associated with dead or dying wood.
Superfamily Tabanoidea are insects in the order Diptera.
Scaptia is a genus of horse-fly in the tribe Scionini.
Apystomyia is a genus of flies in the family Apystomyiidae. The genus contains the single living Apystomyiidae species, Apystomyia elinguis, which is primarily found in California. Details of its life history are largely unknown. The extinct genus Hilarimorphites is known from the Cretaceous Burmese and New Jersey ambers. Formerly placed in the Asiloidea, molecular phylogenetic studies in 2010 placed the genus unambiguously as a sister of the Cyclorrhapha within the clade Eremoneura.
Beridinae is a subfamily of soldier flies in the family Stratiomyidae.
Scaptia beyonceae is a species of horse fly found in the Atherton Tablelands in north-east Queensland, Australia. Discovered in 1981 but not scientifically described until 2011, the fly is named after American recording artist and actress Beyoncé.
Hermetia is a genus of flies of the family Stratiomyidae.
Hermetiinae is a subfamily of flies in the family Stratiomyidae.
Antissinae is a subfamily of soldier flies in the family Stratiomyidae.
Eremoneura is a clade of flies within the Brachycera that includes the Empidoidea and the Cyclorrhapha and is a sister of the Asilomorpha. They are thought to have evolved around the Mesozoic. The group includes fossils described in the genus Chimeromyia from 125 million year old amber which show both empidoid and cyclorrhaphan characters. The monotypic family Apystomyiidae has also been placed within the Eremoneura as a sister of the Cyclorrhapha.
Pangoniinae is a subfamily of horse-flies in the order Diptera, containing at seven tribes and over 40 genera.
Scionini is a tribe of horse and deer flies in subfamily Pangoniinae of family Tabanidae.
Opaluma rupaul is a species of Australian soldier fly, first described in 2020. Specimens of O. rupaul had been previously collected but left unstudied and were misidentified as belonging to the genus Lecomyia.
Anzomyia is a genus of flies in the family Tabanidae.
Myioscaptia is a genus of horse flies in the family Tabanidae.
Antissella is a genus of flies in the family Stratiomyidae.
Prosopochrysa is a genus of flies in the family Stratiomyidae.
Apisomyla is a genus of flies in the family Stratiomyidae. The only species in this genus is Apisomyla bathae.
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