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Narrative
Fly Order (Diptera) is distinctive in the insect world in that its members have only two wings. The hind wings are reduced to small knobs. There are probably about one hundred thousand species of flies in the world, of which more than sixteen thousand are in the United States alone.
This order contains many species of considerable economic importance. Several species spread disease. Other beneficial species consume dead and decaying flesh.
Taxonomy
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Kingdom
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Animalia
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Animal
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Phylum
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Arthropoda
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Jointed Legged Animals
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Class
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Insecta
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Insects
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Order
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Diptera
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Flies
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Family
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SubFamily
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References
| Title | Author | Comments |
| Beeflies of the World | Hull, Frank M. | The beeflies or Bombyliidae are a family in the Diptera (=fly) order. With over 4,000 species known, this work attempts to provide an overview of the various genera and also references the published articles that are related. This 687 page monumental work also pictures many species with line drawings. |
| Catalog of the Diptera of America North of Mexico | Stone, Alan | This 1,696 page work lists the species of flies found in the United States and Canada within the appropriate family, subfamily, and genus. Each species entry shows the author and when it was described. Most of the species have a range given. |
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| Genus | Species |
| Cytheitis | rhodopteron |
| Cytheitis | schultzei |
| Graphium | arcesilaus |
| Graphium | earis |
| Graphium | hipparchus |
| Graphium | iphitas |
| Graphium | orthosilaus |
| Iphimedeia | niepelti |
| Iphimedeia | richardus |
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