🦋 Family

Chloropidae

3 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Diptera › Chloropidae

Thaumatomyia glabra (Meigen, 1830)

Thaumatomyia glabra is a grass fly species in Chloropidae that is attracted to methyl anthranilate from plants like Iris pallida.

Thaumatomyia notata (Meigen, 1830)

Thaumatomyia notata, the yellow swarming fly, is a Chloropidae species found across multiple biogeographic realms with carnivorous grass-root dwelling larvae.

Lipara lucens Meigen, 1830

Lipara lucens is a European frit fly species that forms galls on Phragmites australis plants.

Related Families

Syrphidae 232 species Cecidomyiidae 92 species Tephritidae 78 species Tachinidae 58 species Culicidae 54 species Bombyliidae 53 species Stratiomyidae 51 species Asilidae 49 species

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