Bolbomyia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Antliophora
Ordo: Diptera
Subordo: Brachycera
Infraordo: Tabanomorpha

Familia Bolbomyiidae
Genus: Bolbomyia
Species: B. melanderi – B. nana – B. wuorentausi – †B. loewi
Name

Bolbomyia Loew, 1850b: 39

Type species: Bolbomyia nana Loew, 1862

References

Loew, H. 1850b: Ueber den Bernstein und die Bernsteinfauna. Programm der Königlichen Realschule zu Meseritz. Meseritz. 1850: 1–44.

Bolbomyia is a genus of snipe flies, and the sole genus in the family Bolbomyiidae; until 2010, it was placed in the family Rhagionidae.[1] They are a small 2 to 3.5 mm, brown or black in color, with lightly infuscate (darkened) wings. They are restricted to the north temperate region of North America and Russian Far East (Kamchatka).
Species

†B. loewi Meunier, 1902 - fossil Baltic
B. melanderi Chillcott, 1963 - Nearctic
B. nana Loew, 1862 - Nearctic
B. wuorentausi (Szilády, 1934) - Russia

References

Kerr, P.H. 2010: Phylogeny and classification of Rhagionidae, with implications for Tabanomorpha (Diptera: Brachycera). Zootaxa, 2592: 1–133.