Fanniidae
Lesser housefly ( Fannia canicularis )
The Fanniidae are a family of two-winged flies (Diptera ) and are among the flies ( Brachycera ). They are small to medium in size and usually colored gray.
Well known is the lesser housefly ( Fannia canicularis ), which is almost everywhere. She lives in households and has now grown to spread throughout the world ( cosmopolitan ). The larvae of these flies feed on rotting substances, very often of chicken manure.
System
In Europe, the family of Fanniidae is represented by three genera and about 80 species.
- Euryomma peregrinum ( Meigen, 1826)
- Fannia aequilineata Ringdahl, 1945
- Fannia aethiops Malloch, 1913
- Fannia alpina Pont, 1970
- Fannia armata ( Meigen, 1826)
- Fannia atra (Stein, 1895)
- Fannia atripes Stone, 1916
- Fannia barbata (Stein, 1892)
- Fannia bigelowi Chillcott, 1961
- Fannia brinae Albuquerque, 1951
- Fannia canicularis (Linnaeus, 1761 )
- Fannia carbonaria ( Meigen, 1826)
- Fannia carbonella (Stein, 1895)
- Fannia clara Collin, 1939
- Fannia collini d' Assis - Fonseca, 1966
- Fannia corvina ( Verrall, 1892)
- Fannia difficilis (Stein, 1895)
- Fannia fuscitibia Stone, 1920
- Fannia fuscula ( Fallén, 1825)
- Fannia genualis (Stein, 1895)
- Fannia gotlandica Ringdahl, 1926
- Fannia hirticeps (Stein, 1892)
- Fannia hirundinis Ringdahl, 1948
- Fannia immutica Collin, 1939
- Fannia incisurata ( Zetterstedt, 1838)
- Fannia krimensis Ringdahl, 1934
- Fannia latifrontalis Hennig, 1955
- Fannia latipalpis (Stein, 1892)
- Fannia lepida ( Wiedemann, 1817)
- Fannia leucosticta ( Meigen, 1838)
- Fannia limbata Tiensuu, 1938
- Fannia lineata (Stein, 1895)
- Fannia lucidula ( Zetterstedt, 1860)
- Fannia lugubrina ( Zetterstedt, 1838)
- Fannia lustrator (Harris, 1780)
- Fannia manicata ( Meigen, 1826)
- Fannia melania ( Dufour, 1839)
- Fannia metallipennis ( Zetterstedt, 1838)
- Fannia minutipalpis (Stein, 1895)
- Fannia mollissima ( Haliday, 1840)
- Fannia monilis ( Haliday, 1838)
- Fannia monticola Pont, 1996
- Fannia nidica Collin, 1939
- Fannia nigra Malloch, 1910
- Fannia norvegica Ringdahl, 1934
- Fannia novalis Pont, 1965
- Fannia ornata ( Meigen, 1826)
- Fannia pallitibia ( Rondani, 1866)
- Fannia parva (Stein, 1895)
- Fannia Paul Pont, 1997
- Fannia Polychaeta (Stein, 1895)
- Fannia postica (Stein, 1895)
- Fannia posticata ( Meigen, 1826)
- Fannia pruinosa ( Meigen, 1826)
- Fannia pseudonorvegica d' Assis - Fonseca, 1966
- Fannia pubescens Stone, 1908
- Fannia pusio ( Wiedemann, 1830)
- Fannia rabdionata Karl, 1940
- Fannia ringdahlana Collin, 1939
- Fannia rondanii ( Strobl, 1893)
- Fannia scalaris (Fabricius, 1794)
- Fannia serena ( Fallén, 1825)
- Fannia similis (Stein, 1895)
- Fannia sociella ( Zetterstedt, 1845)
- Fannia spathiophora Malloch, 1918
- Fannia speciosa ( Villeneuve, 1898)
- Fannia stigi Rognes, 1982
- Fannia subatripes d' Assis - Fonseca, 1967
- Fannia subpellucens ( Zetterstedt, 1845)
- Fannia subpubescens Collin, 1958
- Fannia subsimilis Ringdahl, 1934
- Fannia tuberculata ( Zetterstedt, 1849)
- Fannia tunisiae Chillcott, 1961
- Fannia umbratica Collin, 1939
- Fannia umbrosa (Stein, 1895)
- Fannia verrallii (Stein, 1895)
- Fannia vesparia ( Meade, 1891)
- Fannia vespertilionis Ringdahl, 1934
- Piezura graminicola ( Zetterstedt, 1846)
- Piezura pardalina Rondani, 1866
Curiosities
Quite a stir in the art world caused the 1966 discovery made by Fannia scalaris in one piece Eocene Baltic amber collection at the Natural History Museum in London. Although many of Eocene genera of insects - known extant representatives, but it lacked a secured evidence that a kind of these about 50 million years earlier period has survived the earth's history - especially those from Baltic amber. In a re-examination of the piece in 1993, it turned out, however, that it is a forgery of Amber inclusion.