Tritoxa incurva

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Tritoxa incurva
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Ulidiidae
Subfamily: Otitinae
Tribe: Cephaliini
Genus: Tritoxa
Species:
T. incurva
Binomial name
Tritoxa incurva
Loew, 1873 [1]
Tritoxa incurva in Merrimac Farm Wildlife Management Area, Aden, Virginia. Picture-winged Fly - Tritoxa incurva, Merrimac Farm Wildlife Management Area, Aden, Virginia.jpg
Tritoxa incurva in Merrimac Farm Wildlife Management Area, Aden, Virginia.

Tritoxa incurva is a species of picture-winged fly in the genus Tritoxa of the family Ulidiidae. [2]

Contents

The flies are about 6–8 mm long. They have bold wing pattern and rusty-brown coloration, at least in the east. They live in eastern United States, and can be found in grassy meadows from May till October. [3]

Distribution

United States.

Bibliography

  1. Insects: Their Natural History And Diversity: With a Photographic Guide to Insects of Eastern North America; Stephen A. Marshall. 2006. Firefly Books Ltd.; See color photograph-496.6
  2. Insects of North Carolina; C.S. Brimley. 1938. North Carolina Department of Agriculture. p. 381

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References

  1. Loew, Hermann (1873). "Monographs of the Diptera of North America. Part III". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 11: vii + 351 +XIII pp., 4 pls. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  2. Sinclair, Bradley J.; Macleod, Alyssa M.; Wheeler, Terry A. (2021-01-29). "Revision of the Nearctic genus Tritoxa Loew (Diptera: Ulidiidae)". Zootaxa. 4920 (3): 359–379. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4920.3.3 . ISSN   1175-5334.
  3. "Species Tritoxa incurva - BugGuide.Net". bugguide.net. Retrieved 17 December 2016.