Lance fly

Lamprolonchaea smaragdi

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Lonchaeidae

The Lonchaeidae are a family of acalyptrate flies commonly known as lance flies. 610 described species are placed into 10 genera. These are generally small but robustly built flies with blue-black or metallic bodies.

Distribution

Loading map…

Countries in the Picchu catalog

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Albert Cardona, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionLonchaeidae, Wikipedia contributors

Lance fly

More from the same family

Silba fumosa

Dasiops latifrons

Black Fig Fly

Earomyia melnickae

Lance fly

Dasiops vibrissatus

Earomyia veratri

Lonchaea ignicornis