Sphaeroceroidea

Sphaeroceroidea

Taxobox
name = Lesser dung flies and allies



image_caption = "Limosina silvatica"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Hexapoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota|
ordo = Diptera
subordo = Brachycera
infraordo = Muscomorpha
zoosectio = Schizophora
zoosubsectio = Acalyptratae
superfamilia = Sphaeroceroidea
subdivision_ranks = Families
subdivision = Chyromyidae
Heleomyzidae - incl. Trixoscelididae & Rhinotoridae
Sphaeroceridae - small dung flies
Nannodastiidae
Small dung flies belong to the Sphaeroceroidae family. There are 241 species in North America. Most small dung flies breed in animal manure. A few species feed in any decaying organic matter.

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