Eurychoromyia mallea

Taxobox
name = Broad-headed Fly


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota|
ordo = Diptera
infraordo = Muscomorpha
zoosectio = Schizophora
zoosubsectio = Acalyptratae
superfamilia = Lauxanioidea
familia = Eurychoromyiidae
genus = "Eurychoromyia"
species = "E. mallea"
binomial = "Eurychoromyia mallea"
binomial_authority = Hendel, 1910

"Eurychoromyia mallea" or Broad-headed fly sometime know as "the rarest known fly". "Eurychoromyia mallea" has been described from only 4 female specimens collected in Bolivia in 1903. No specimens have been seen or collected since. Two of the specimens now reside in the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna. The other two specimens are in the Staatliches Museum fur Tierkunde in Dresden.

There are many species of Flies known from an unique specimen. what makes the four "Eurychoromyia mallea" so special is that they are the sole representative of a family group.

They are 5 mm in length, and the head is 2.5 mm wide, they are shiny, peach-brown insects. No immature stages, or male specimens are known.

External links

* [http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/diptera/minorfam/eurychor.htm Broad-headed flies - USDA]