A new species of Axymyiidae (Diptera) from western North America and a key to the Nearctic species

Fitzgerald, Scott J.; Wood, D. M.

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3857.1.4

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“…Axymyiidae are a small family of Holarctic flies with a single eastern species, Axymyiafurcata McAtee, recorded from Canada (Ontario, Quebec) but two species from the Pacific Northwest (Sinclair 2013, Fitzgerald and Wood 2014) are expected to occur in British Columbia (Table 1). Detailed descriptions of all life stages and keys to Nearctic species are provided by Wood (1981), Wihlm et al (2012), and Fitzgerald and Wood (2014). The life history of the eastern Nearctic A.furcata is well documented (Wihlm and Courtney 2011) and all known larval stages in Axymyiidae are restricted to burrowing in water-permeated wood.…”

Section: Nematocerous Dipteramentioning

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Diptera of Canada

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Borkent²,

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The Canadian Diptera fauna is updated. Numbers of species currently known from Canada, total Barcode Index Numbers (BINs), and estimated numbers of undescribed or unrecorded species are provided for each family. An overview of recent changes in the systematics and Canadian faunistics of major groups is provided as well as some general information on biology and life history. A total of 116 families and 9620 described species of Canadian Diptera are reported, representing more than a 36% increase in species numbers since the last comparable assessment by JF McAlpine et al. (1979). Almost 30,000 BINs have so far been obtained from flies in Canada. Estimates of additional number of species remaining to be documented in the country range from 5200 to 20,400.

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