Clitellaria

Keith Bayless

Clitellaria aurofasciata
Clitellaria bergeri
Clitellaria bilineata
Clitellaria chikuni
Clitellaria crassistilus
Clitellaria ephippium
Clitellaria flavipilosa
Clitellaria ignifera
Clitellaria kunmingana
Clitellaria longipilosa
Clitellaria mediflava
Clitellaria nigra
Clitellaria obtusa
Clitellaria orientalis
Clitellaria pontica
Clitellaria stylata

Introduction

Clitellaria is most diverse in East Asia, particularly China, with two species, C. ephippium and C. pontica, native to Europe. The larvae of Clitellaria ephippium occur in nests of Lasius fuliginosus ants (Woodley 2001).

Characteristics

Clitellaria is distinguished from other Palaearctic Clitellarinae by the almost bare apical antennal flagellomeres, and the presence of spines laterally on the thorax near the wing bases (Rozkošný 1998).

References

Rozkošný, R. 1998. Chapter 24. Family Stratiomyidae. Manual Palaearct. Dipt. 2:387-411.

Woodley, N. E. 2001. A World Catalog of the Stratiomyidae (Insecta: Diptera). Myia 11: 1-473. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden.

Information on the Internet

Diptera.info. Image of Clitellaria ephippium.

About This Page

Keith Bayless
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

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First online 28 September 2008
Content changed 28 September 2008

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