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Thick-headed Flies
Conopidae
The Conopidae, usually known as the thick-headed flies, are a family of flies within the Brachycera suborder of Diptera. Flies of the family Conopidae are distributed worldwide in all the ecozones except for the poles and many of the Pacific islands. About 800 species in 47 genera are described worldwide, about 70 of which are found in North America. The majority of conopids are black and yellow, or black and white, and often strikingly resemble wasps,...
8 branches of this family, most-observed first
Conopinae
subfamilyConopinae
Sicinae
subfamilySicinae
Myopinae
subfamilyMyopinae
Zodioninae
subfamilyZodioninae
Stylogastrinae
subfamilyStylogastrinae
Dalmanniinae
subfamilyDalmanniinae
Parazodion
genusParazodion
Macroconops
genusMacroconops
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 61893.