Bolbomyia

Bolbomyia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Suborder:	Brachycera
Infraorder:	Tabanomorpha
Superfamily:	Rhagionoidea
Family:	Bolbomyiidae
Genus:	Bolbomyia; Loew, 1862
Type species
	Bolbomyia nana; Loew, 1862
Species
	See text
Synonyms
	Misgomyia Coquillett, 1908; Cekendia Szilády, 1934;

Bolbomyia is a genus of snipe flies, and the sole genus in the family Bolbomyiidae; until 2010, it was placed in the family Rhagionidae.^[1] They are a small 2 to 3.5 mm, brown or black in color, with lightly infuscate (darkened) wings. They are restricted to the north temperate region of North America and Russian Far East (Kamchatka).

Species

†B. loewi Meunier, 1902 - fossil Baltic
B. melanderi Chillcott, 1963 - Nearctic
B. nana Loew, 1862 - Nearctic
B. wuorentausi (Szilády, 1934) - Russia

References

^ Kerr, P.H. 2010: Phylogeny and classification of Rhagionidae, with implications for Tabanomorpha (Diptera: Brachycera). Zootaxa, 2592: 1–133.

[1] Kerr, P.H. 2010: Phylogeny and classification of Rhagionidae, with implications for Tabanomorpha (Diptera: Brachycera). Zootaxa, 2592: 1–133.

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