Calliopum

Calliopum
Calliopum simillimum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Lauxaniidae
Subfamily: Lauxaniinae
Genus: Calliopum
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. They are smaller than 5 mm and usually have iridescent eyes. Adults can be found from May until December in meadows and hedge rows. The larvae may be phytophagous or saprophagous, mainly feeding on rotting vegetable matter or mining clover leaves.

Distribution

These species are present on most of Europe, in the eastern Palearctic realm, in the Near East and in North Africa.

Species

References

  1. 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). Vol. 5. Moscow: Zoologicheskie Issledovania. p. 102.
  2. ↑ Commanster
  3. ↑ Semelbauer, Marek; Kozánek, Milan (2012). "Morphology of preimaginal stages of Lauxania and Calliopum (Diptera: Lauxaniidae)". Zootaxa. 3346. Magnolia Press: 1–28. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3346.1.1. ISSN 1175-5326.
  4. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  5. 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. Vol. 12. London: Royal Entomological Society of London. pp. 1–234. ISBN 0-901546-82-8.
  6. ↑ Collin, J. E. (1933). "Five new species of Diptera". The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 69: 272–275.
  7. ↑ Carles-Tolra, M. (2001). "Calliopum tripodium sp n. a new lauxaniid species from Andorra (Diptera: Lauxaniidae)". Zapateri. 9: 103–105.