| Leaf-miner flies, etc. | |
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| Opomyza florum | |
Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Subsection: | Acalyptratae |
| Superfamily: | Opomyzoidea |
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The Opomyzoidea are a superfamily of flies.
Biology
Opomyzoids show a range of lifestyles including mining plant leaves (many Agromyzidae), feeding in grass stems ( Anthomyzidae and Opomyzidae), forming plant galls ( Fergusonina), feeding on fungi (some Anthomyzidae and Asteiidae), feeding on sap flows of trees (some Aulacigastridae, Odiniidae and Periscelididae), living in galleries of wood-boring insects (Odiniidae) or in water-filled cavities of plants ( phytotelmata; Aulacigastridae, Neurochaetidae and Periscelididae). However, the biology of most opomyzoid families is poorly known. [1]
Phylogeny
The phylogeny of Opomyzoidea is controversial, with different authors assigning different families and different relationships among families. One study using molecular analysis concluded that the superfamily is not monophyletic. [1]
References
- ^ a b Winkler, Isaac S.; Rung, Alessandra; Scheffer, Sonja J. (2010-03-01). "Hennig's orphans revisited: Testing morphological hypotheses in the "Opomyzoidea" (Diptera: Schizophora)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 54 (3): 746–762. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.12.016. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 20040375.
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