Xylomyidae
Encyclopedia
Xylomyidae or wood soldier flies is a family of Diptera
associated with dead or dying wood (xylophagous).
Diptera
Diptera , or true flies, is the order of insects possessing only a single pair of wings on the mesothorax; the metathorax bears a pair of drumstick like structures called the halteres, the remnants of the hind wings. It is a large order, containing an estimated 240,000 species, although under half...
associated with dead or dying wood (xylophagous).
Genera
- Solva
- Solva marginataSolva marginataSolva marginata also known as the drab wood-soldierfly is a species of soldier fly in the family Xylomyidae, the "wood soldier flies".-Description:...
(Meigen, 1820) - Solva minuta
- Solva nigritibialis
- Solva varia
- Xylomya
- Xylomyia czekanovskii
- Xylomyia maculata
- Xylomyia trinotata
Species lists
- Palaearctic
- Nearctic
- Australasian/Oceanian
- Japan
- Great Britain