What are the families of Diptera?

What are the families of Diptera?

TAXONOMY

Family	Common names
Phoridae	Humpbacked flies
Syrphidae	Flower flies, hover flies
Piophilidae	Skipper flies
Drosophilidae	Small fruit flies, vinegar flies

How many families of flies are there?

The Diptera have traditionally been divided into three suborders: Nematocera (flies with multisegmented antennae) Brachycera (flies with stylate antennae) Cyclorrhapha (flies with aristate antennae)…Classification & Distribution.

	North America	Worldwide
Number of Families	108	130
Number of Species	16,914	~98,500

What family do flies belong to?

dipteran, (order Diptera), any member of an order of insects containing the two-winged or so-called true flies. Although many winged insects are commonly called flies, the name is strictly applicable only to members of Diptera.

What phylum is a fly in?

Arthropod
Fly/Phylum

Is Insecta a class or order?

insect, (class Insecta or Hexapoda), any member of the largest class of the phylum Arthropoda, which is itself the largest of the animal phyla.

Do house flies have families?

The female housefly usually mates only once and stores the sperm for later use. She lays batches of about 100 eggs on decaying organic matter such as food waste, carrion, or feces….

Housefly
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Muscidae
Genus:	Musca

Which insect belong to Coleoptera?

beetles
coleopteran, (order Coleoptera), any member of the insect order Coleoptera, consisting of the beetles and weevils. It is the largest order of insects, representing about 40 percent of the known insect species.

Are Beetles a family?

Adephaga contains about 10 families of largely predatory beetles, includes ground beetles (Carabidae), water beetles (Dytiscidae) and whirligig beetles (Gyrinidae)….Phylogeny.

	Cucujoidea (8000)
170mya	Chrysomeloidea Chrysomelidae (35000, leaf beetles) Cerambycidae (25000, longhorn beetles) Curculionoidea (97000, weevils)