Tritoxa incurva is a species of picture-winged fly in the genus Tritoxa of the family Ulidiidae.[2]
Tritoxa incurva | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Ulidiidae |
Subfamily: | Otitinae |
Tribe: | Cephaliini |
Genus: | Tritoxa |
Species: | T. incurva
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Binomial name | |
Tritoxa incurva |
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The flies are about 6–8 mm long. They have a bold wing pattern and rusty-brown coloration, at least in the east. They live in the eastern United States, and can be found in grassy meadows from May through October.[3]
Bibliography
edit- 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
- Insects of North Carolina; C.S. Brimley. 1938. North Carolina Department of Agriculture. p. 381
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Species Tritoxa incurva - BugGuide.Net". bugguide.net. Retrieved 17 December 2016.