Species list, Checklist of Order Diptera (Flies) for Prairie (Mahaska County, Iowa, USA)

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 Prairie (Mahaska County, Iowa, USA)

Class	Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 Insects, True insects	50 93 96	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Pterygota Lang, 1888 Winged insects	50 93 96	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Neoptera van der Wulp, 1890 Modern Wing-folding insects	48 91 94	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Holometabola Heider, 1889 Holometabolous Insects	40 74 75	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Diptera Linnaeus, 1758 Flies, Gnats, Hoverflies, Mosquitoes, True flies	3 4 4	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Prairie (Mahaska County)
3 Families width 4 Species

Agromyzidae Fallen, 1823	Leaf miner flies	1	Species	Taxom
Culicidae Meigen, 1818	Mosquito	2	Species	Taxom
Syrphidae Latreille, 1802	Drone flies	1	Species	Taxom

Genera for Prairie (Mahaska County)
4 Genera with 4 Species

Cerodontha Rondani, 1863		1	Species	Taxom
Culex Linnaeus, 1905	Typical Mosquito	1	Species	Taxom
Culiseta Felt, 1957	Cool Mosquito	1	Species	Taxom
Melanostoma Schiner, 1758		1	Species	Taxom

Species list for Prairie (Mahaska County)
4 Species

Cerodontha (Cerodontha) dorsalis Loew, 1863	Grass sheathminer
Culex (Culiciomyia) inornata (Theobald, 1905)	⇒ Culiseta inornata Williston, 1893
Culiseta minnesotae Barr, 1957
Melanostoma mellinum Linnaeus, 1758

Subnodes of Diptera with occurrences in Prairie (Mahaska County)

Suborder	Brachycera Macquart, 1834 Circular-seamed flies, Muscoid flies, Short-horned flies	2 2 2	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Nematocera Latreille, 1825 Long-horned flies, Mosquitoes, Thread-horns	1 2 2	Family Genera 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