Acartophthalmidae

Acartophthalmidae
Acartophthalmus nigrinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Section: Schizophora
Subsection: Acalyptratae
Superfamily: Opomyzoidea
Family: Acartophthalmidae
Czerny, 1902[1]

The Acartophthalmidae are a family of very small (1.0-2.5 mm), dark flies with pubescent arista, placed in the order Diptera. All are Holarctic in distribution. One fossil species is known.

Genera

Biology

Adults have been found mostly in forests. Larvae have been reared from dead wood and decaying organic material. .

References

  1. 1 2 Czerny, Leander (1902). "Bemerkungen zu den Arten der Gattungen Anthomyza Fll. und Ischnomyia Lw." (PDF). Wiener Entomologische Zeitung. 21: 249–256. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  2. Hennig, Willi (1965). "Die Acalyptratae des Baltischen Bernsteins und ihre Bedeutung fur die Erforschung der phylogenetischen Entwicklung dieser Dipteren-Gruppe". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. 145: 1–215.
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