Cedar Creek
Natural History Area


Insects of Cedar Creek

Order DIPTERA

Family MILICHIIDAE

(Milichiid Flies)

(Table of Species)

Milichiid Flies (36 NA spp) are small dark-bodied flies associated with decaying vegetation, manure, carrion, and ant/bird nest debris. Relatively few specimens have been collected including Eusiphona mira, Leptometopa latipes, Madiza glabra, Milichiella sp, Paramyia nitens, Pholeomyia sp, and Desmometopa sp?


jhaar@lter.umn.edu Last updated May, 2000