Lonchoptera

Taxobox
name = Lonchoptera


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Hexapoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota
ordo = Diptera
subordo = Brachycera
infraordo = Muscomorpha
zoosectio = Aschiza
superfamilia = Lonchopteroidea
familia = Lonchopteridae
genus = "Lonchoptera"
synonyms = *"Dipsa" Fallén, 1810
*"Lonchopteryx" Stephens, 1829
*"Musidora" Meigen, 1800
type_species = "Lonchoptera lutea"
type_species_authority = Panzer, 1809
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = *"L. bifurcata" (Fallén, 1810)
*"L. lutea" Panzer, 1809
*"L. meijerei" Collin, 1938
*"L. nigrociliata" Duda, 1927
*"L. nitidifrons" Strobl, 1898
*"L. scutellata" Stein, 1890
*"L. tristis" Meigen, 1824
"Others"

"Lonchoptera", or spear-winged flies, are tiny to small (2-5mm), slender, yellow to brownish black bristly flies. Their common name comes from their subacute (pointed) wings, which have a distinct, sexual dimorphic venation. The larva are dorsally flattened, with two pairs of head bristles and feed on rotting vegetable matter. [cite book|author=Smith, K.G.V|year=1969 |title=Diptera Lonchopteridae. Handbooks for the identification of British insects 10(2ai): 1-9. Keys to British species.|pages=9 pp|publisher=Roy. En. Soc.]

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