🦋 Family

Mydidae

4 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Diptera › Mydidae

Mydas clavatus is a large black fly that mimics stinging insects, found across multiple habitat types in North America.

Mydas tibialis, the golden legged mydas fly, is a Mydidae species found in North America.

Mydas xanthopterus is a North American mydas fly species that may be a Batesian mimic of red-winged Pepsis.

Gauromydas heros is the largest known fly, with Neotropical distribution across South America.

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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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