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Somatia
Sign in to saveSomatia is the sole genus of the acalyptrate brachyceran fly family Somatiidae. The genus includes about seven Neotropical species of small (3-5 mm long) black and yellow flies with a stout and rounded thorax having transverse suture. The legs are separated from the main body by an elongated post-coxal bridge. The broad abdomen is downcurved. The antenna are elbowed with the arista bipectinate. Somatiids resemble members of the Syringogastridae due to the enlarged pronotum and a postcoxal bridge but they have a petiolate abdomen.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 13
- With media
- 6
- Family
- Somatiidae
- Collections
- MCGILL UNIVERSITY, USNM, EMEC, NHMUK, MZLU
- Recorded in
- Costa Rica, Venezuela, Peru, Honduras, Ecuador, Colombia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Somatiidae
- Image
- FIGURES 71–77. Somatia aestiva (Fabricius) (Somatiidae); 71 female dorsal; 72 same, lateral; 73 head, anterolateral; 74 female head, anterior; 75 same, dorsal; 76 head, posterior; 77 lateral.png
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Somatia is the sole genus of the acalyptrate brachyceran fly family Somatiidae. The genus includes about seven Neotropical species of small (3-5 mm long) black and yellow flies with a stout and rounded thorax having transverse suture. The legs are separated from the main body by an elongated post-coxal bridge. The broad abdomen is downcurved. The antenna are elbowed with the arista bipectinate. Somatiids resemble members of the Syringogastridae due to the enlarged pronotum and a postcoxal bridge but they have a petiolate abdomen.
Adult Somatia have been found feeding on a dead caterpillar and aggregating on the extra-floral nectaries of Solanaceae, Bignoniaceae and Passifloraceae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Somatia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.