Ropalomeridae
Sign in to saveThe Ropalomeridae are a family of acalyptrate flies.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 11
- Family
- Ropalomeridae
- Collections
- MHNCA, UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA COLLECTION OF ARTHOPODS (UCFC), USNM, MZLU
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Honduras
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Sciomyzoidea
- Image
- MacquartTab27.jpg
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- taxon name
- Ropalomeridae
- taxon rank
- family
- topic's main category
- Category:Ropalomeridae
- Commons category
- Ropalomeridae
- diel cycle
- diurnality
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The Ropalomeridae are a family of acalyptrate flies.
==Description== Ropalomeridae are robust flies of body length, with a superficial resemblance to the Sarcophagidae in terms of body colour. The hind femora are conspicuously enlarged and the hind tibia is often laterally flattened and broadened and with broad, excavated vertex.
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