| Protovermileo Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Vermileonidae |
| Genus: | † Protovermileo Hennig, 1967 [1] |
| Species: | †P. electricus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Protovermileo electricus | |
Protovermileo is an extinct genus of wormlion in the family Vermileonidae. It contains only the species Protovermileo electricus, which is known from Baltic amber. [2]
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 mechanosensory organs known as halteres, which act as high-speed sensors of rotational movement and allow dipterans to perform advanced aerobatics. Diptera is a large order containing an estimated 1,000,000 species including horse-flies, crane flies, hoverflies, mosquitoes and others, although only about 125,000 species have been described.
Sarcophagidae are a family of flies commonly known as flesh flies. They differ from most flies in that they are ovoviviparous, opportunistically depositing hatched or hatching maggots instead of eggs on carrion, dung, decaying material, or open wounds of mammals, hence their common name. Some flesh fly larvae are internal parasites of other insects such as Orthoptera, and some, in particular the Miltogramminae, are kleptoparasites of solitary Hymenoptera. The adults mostly feed on fluids from animal bodies, nectar, sweet foods, fluids from animal waste and other organic substances. Juveniles need protein to develop and may be laid on carrion, dung or sweet plant foods.
The Tephritoidea are a superfamily of flies. It has over 7,800 species, the majority of them in family Tephritidae.
The Heleomyzidae is a small family of true flies in the insect order Diptera. Over 740 described species of Heleomyzidae occur in about 76 general distributed throughout the world.
The Brachyceran family Vermileonidae is a small family of uncertain affinities and unusual biology. It includes fewer than 80 described species, most of them rare and with restricted distribution, in 11 genera. Historically the vermileonids had been regarded as belonging to the family Rhagionidae, possibly in a subfamily Vermileoninae. Their biology and morphology are so markedly distinct from the main Rhagionidae sensu stricto however, that the placement as a separate family has been widely accepted.
Rhagionidae or snipe flies are a small family of flies. They get their name from the similarity of their often prominent proboscis that looks like the beak of a snipe.
Sciaroidea is a superfamily in the infraorder Bibionomorpha. There are about 16 families and more than 15,000 described species in Sciaroidea. Most of its constituent families are various gnats.
Brian Roy Stuckenberg was a South African entomologist who specialised in Diptera.
Vermileo is a genus of wormlions in the family Vermileonidae.
Vermileo vermileo is a species of wormlion in the family Vermileonidae.
Alhajarmyia is a genus of wormlion in the family Vermileonidae. It consists of two species from the Arabian Peninsula and East Africa. It is closely related to the Malagasy endemic Isalomyia.
Vermitigris is a genus of wormlion in the family Vermileonidae.
Isalomyia is a genus of wormlion in the family Vermileonidae. It contains a single species Isalomyia irwini, endemic to Madagascar. It is closedly related to Alhajarmyia, a genus from the Arabian Peninsula and East Africa.
Namaquamyia is a genus of wormlion in the family Vermileonidae, containing a single species from Namaqualand, Namaquamyia manselli. The genus was first described by Brian Roy Stuckenberg in 2000, who originally named it Namamyia ; this name was preoccupied by the caddisfly genus NamamyiaBanks, 1905, so in 2002 Stuckenberg renamed the genus Namaqualandia.
Vermilynx is a genus of wormlion in the family Vermileonidae.
Vermiophis is a genus of wormlion in the family Vermileonidae.
Leptynoma is a genus of wormlions in the family Vermileonidae.
Lampromyia is a genus of wormlion in the family Vermileonidae.
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