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Myopa

Myopa is a genus of flies from the family Conopidae.

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Myopa
Myopa buccata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Conopidae
Tribe: Myopini
Genus: Myopa
Fabricius, 17751
Type species
Conops buccatus

Myopa is a genus of flies from the family Conopidae.2

Myopa dorsalis source ↗

They are parasitic on honey bees Apis mellifera, also Andrena, and mustache bees Anthophora.3

Species

References

References

  1. Fabricius, J.C. (1775). Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. Flensbvrgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig]: Kortii. pp. [32] + 832. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  2. Smith, K.G.V. (1969). Diptera: Conopidae. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. Vol. 10 pt 3a. Royal Entomological Society of London. pp. 19 pp.
  3. Bugguide.net. Myopa
  4. Barahona-Segovia, Rodrigo M.; Barceló, MatíAs (25 May 2020). "Myopa nebulosa sp. nov. and Myopa bozinovici sp. nov. (Diptera: Conopidae): New thick-headed flies from a threatened biodiversity hotspot in central Chile". Zootaxa. 4780 (2). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4780.2.4.
  5. Loew, Hermann (1866). "Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena. Centuria Septima". Berl. Ent. Z. 10: 1–54. Retrieved 14 March 2022.