Species list, Checklist of Order Diptera (Flies) for Alton (Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Canada)

Ants	Arachnids
Bees	Beetles
Booklice	Bugs
Bumblebees	Butterflies
Cicadas	Crane flies
Dragonflies	Earwigs
Flies	Isopods
Locusts	Mantises
Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
Termites	Wasps

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Checklist for Order Diptera Linnaeus, 1758 (Flies)
and region Alton (Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Canada)

Class	Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 Insects, True insects	48 73 67	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Pterygota Lang, 1888 Winged insects	48 73 67	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Neoptera van der Wulp, 1890 Modern Wing-folding insects	46 71 65	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Holometabola Heider, 1889 Holometabolous Insects	35 55 48	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Diptera Linnaeus, 1758 Flies, Gnats, Hoverflies, Mosquitoes, True flies	4 4 4	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Alton (Colchester County)
4 Families width 4 Species

Culicidae (Meigen, 1818)	Mosquito	1	Species	Taxom
Bombyliidae Latreille, 1802	Bee Flies	1	Species	Taxom
Asilidae Latreille, 1802	Assassin flies	1	Species	Taxom
Calliphoridae Brauer & Ber..., 1889	Blow flies	1	Species	Taxom

Genera for Alton (Colchester County)
4 Genera with 4 Species

Aedes Meigen, 1830	Ochlerotatus	1	Species	Taxom
Bombylius Linnaeus, 1758	Greater Bee Flies	1	Species	Taxom
Megaphorus Bigot, 1893		1	Species	Taxom
Pollenia Robineau-Des..., 1794	Attic flies	1	Species	Taxom

Species list for Alton (Colchester County)
4 Species

Aedes (Aedimorphus) vexans (Meigen, 1830)	⇒ Aedimorphus vexans Meigen, 1830
Bombylius (Bombylius) major Linnaeus, 1758	Bee fly
Megaphorus megachile Coquillett, 1893
Pollenia rudis Fabricius, 1794	Awkward Clusterfly

Subnodes of Diptera with occurrences in Alton (Colchester County)

Suborder	Brachycera Macquart, 1834 Circular-seamed flies, Muscoid flies, Short-horned flies	3 3 3	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Nematocera Latreille, 1825 Long-horned flies, Mosquitoes, Thread-horns	1 1 1	Family Genus Species	Taxom

Links, sources and further information

Diptera at hbs.bishopmuseum.org
Diptera at sci-s03.bacs.uq.edu.au
Diptera at papua-insects.nl
Diptera at artfakta.se
Diptera at dyntaxa.se
Diptera at gbif.org
Diptera at irmng.org
Diptera at itis.gov
Diptera at marinespecies.org