Calliopum
| Calliopum | |
|---|---|
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| Calliopum simillimum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Lauxaniidae |
| Subfamily: | Lauxaniinae |
| Genus: | Calliopum[1] Strand, 1928 |
| Type species | |
| Lauxania scutellata Meigen, 1826 (= Calliopum aeneum Fallén) | |
| Synonyms | |
Calliopum is a genus of small flies of the family Lauxaniidae.
Description
Calliopum sp. in a meadow
Calliopum sp., Lateral view
Most, but not all, are luscious black or metallic flies.[1] They are smaller than 5 mm and usually have iridescent eyes. Adults can be found from May until December in meadows and hedge rows. [2] The larvae may be phytophagous or saprophagous, mainly feeding on rotting vegetable matter or mining clover leaves.[3]
Distribution
These species are present on most of Europe, in the East Palearctic ecozone, in the Near East and in North Africa. [4]
Species
- C. aeneum (Fallén, 1820)[1][5]
- C. annulatum Backer, 1907[1]
- C. caucasicum Shatalkin, 1995[1]
- C. ceianui Papp, 1984[1]
- C. elisae (Meigen, 1826)[1][5]
- C. ellisiorum Shatalkin, 2000[1]
- C. geniculatum (Fabricius, 1805)[1][5]
- C. hispanicum (Mik, 1881)[1]
- C. oosterbroki Shatalkin, 2000[1]
- C. rufipes Czerny, 1932[1]
- C. sakhalinicum Shatalkin, 1995[1]
- C. simillimum (Collin, 1933)[1][5]
- C. splendidum Papp, 1978[1]
- C. tripodium Carles-Tolra, 2001[1]
- C. tunisicum Papp, 1981[1]
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References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Шаталкин, Анатолий Иванович (2000). Определитель палеарктических мух семейства Lauxaniidae (Diptera) [Keys to the Palaearctic flies of the family Lauxaniidae (Diptera)] (Print) (in Russian) 5. Moscow: Zoologicheskie Issledovania. p. 102.
- ↑ Commanster
- ↑ Semelbauer, Marek; Kozánek, Milan (2012). "Morphology of preimaginal stages of Lauxania and Calliopum (Diptera: Lauxaniidae)". Zootaxa (Magnolia Press) 3346: 1–28. ISSN 1175-5326.
- ↑ Fauna Europaea
- 1 2 3 4 Chandler, Peter J. (1998). Checklists of Insects of the British Isles (New Series) Part 1: Diptera. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. New Series 12 (London: Royal Entomological Society of London). pp. 1–234. ISBN 0-901546-82-8.
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