Classification: Enigmilichia
Enigmilichia dimorphica has been reared from rotten yam tuber. In Greece a male of a possible new species was collected near a large pile of uncut poplar logs.
Orbital and frontal setae reclinate in males, in females anterior orbital seta latero-proclinate, middle one latero-reclinate, and posterior one absent, frontal setae medioclinate.
Greece, Nigeria
Classification: Enigmilichia

Classification: Enigmilichia; Enigmilichia dimorphica
This key has been adapted from Brake (2000).
1. Vibrissa below or at the level of lower margin of eye; head in profile subquadrate; vertical diameter of eye less than 1.5x the horizontal diameter. Frons in male as wide as in female. Wing with subcostal notch seldom evident, never well-developed; R4+5 and M1 not or only slightly converging at tips; distal margin of anal cell (CuA2) usually rounded (if not, then epistoma extended dorsally, subtriangular). Abdominal tergites of male without silvery microtomentum.
Classification: Aldrichiomyza; Borneomyia; Costalima; Desmometopa; Enigmilichia; Eusiphona; Leptometopa; Litometopa; Madiza; Madizinae; Microsimus; Milichia; Milichia distinctipennis; Milichia speciosa; Milichiella; Milichiinae; Neophyllomyza; Paramyia; Pholeomyia; Phyllomyza; Phyllomyzinae; Stomosis; Ulia; Xenophyllomyza; Milichiidae
The Milichiidae fauna of Greece is virtually unknown, with only Desmometopa m-nigrum, Leptometopa rufifrons and Milichia pubescens (Brake 2000) recorded. However, thanks to the efforts of Gordon Ramel, who maintained several Malaise as well as other traps near Lake Kerkini in northern Greece, close to the border to Bulgaria, this has now changed. Sadly the first parcel with specimens sent to me was lost, so that the absence of data for some traps and times as well as the low numbers in some traps are not necessarily reflecting the original collection.
Classification: Desmometopa discipalpis; Desmometopa microps; Desmometopa sordida; Enigmilichia; Leptometopa latipes; Leptometopa niveipennis; Leptometopa rufifrons; Madiza; Madiza glabra; Milichia ludens; Milichia speciosa; Milichiella argyrogaster; Milichiella iberica; Milichiella lacteipennis; Neophyllomyza acyglossa; Paramyia hungarica; Phyllomyza flavitarsis Meigen; Phyllomyza longipalpis; Phyllomyza securicornis; Phyllomyza sp. Sultanitsa
Summarized from Brake (2000)
The Milichiidae are a monophyletic family (Click here for phylogenetic tree).
Apomorphic characters for the Milichiidae are:
Classification: Aldrichiomyza; Borneomyia; Costalima; Desmometopa; Enigmilichia; Eusiphona; Leptometopa; Leptometopa niveipennis; Litometopa; Madiza; Madizinae; Microsimus; Milichia; Milichia distinctipennis; Milichia speciosa; Milichiella; Milichiella freyi; Milichiella nigeriae nigeriae; Milichiella populi; Milichiella sp. B; Milichiella sp. K; Milichiella tosi; Milichiinae; Neophyllomyza; Paramyia; Paramyioides; Pholeomyia; Pholeomyia nigricosta; Phyllomyza; Phyllomyzinae; Platophrymia; Stomosis; Ulia; Xenophyllomyza; Acartophthalmidae; Australimyzidae; Carnidae; Chloropidae; Milichiidae; Tethinidae
| Year of Publication | Authors | Title | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Deeming, JC | Some new African Milichiidae (Diptera: Cyclorrapha) having pronounced sexual dimorphism of the frons | http://milichiidae.info/sites/milichiidae.info/files/Deeming_1981.pdf |
| 2010 | Brake, I | Milichiidae of the Lake Kerkini region in Greece | http://milichiidae.info/node/12233 |
| 2009 | Gerlach, J | 21. Superfamily Carnoidea |
| Name as cited | Keywords | Authors | Year | Title | Page | Associated taxa |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ?Enigmilichia sp. 1 | Uganda | Brake, I | 2000 | Phylogenetic systematics of the Milichiidae (Diptera, Schizophora) | 11 |