Split Spear-winged Fly

Lonchoptera bifurcata

General Status Rank: 
Undetermined
Common Name: 
Split Spear-winged Fly
Scientific Name: 
Lonchoptera bifurcata
Taxonomy
Group: 
Fly (Spear-winged Fly)
Kingdom: 
Animalia
Phylum: 
Arthropoda
Class: 
Insecta
Order: 
Diptera
Family: 
Lonchopteridae
Distribution

Distribution

No locality mentionned. Every province and territory except Nunavut. Males are rare throughout the nearly cosmopolitan range of this species; there are only seven Nearctic records (Vaillant 1989) (Klymko J. and Marshall S. A. 2008. Review of the Nearctic Lonchopteridae (Diptera), including descriptions of three new species. The Canadian Entomologist, 140(6):649-673)
Score: 
U
General Status Rank
Rank: 
Undetermined
S Rank: 
SU
Decision Process Description: 
Amélie Grégoire-Taillefer
Last Updated: 
January 10, 2020

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