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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Tephritoidea » Picture-winged Flies (Ulidiidae)

Family Ulidiidae - Picture-winged Flies

Representative Images

Red Fly Black Wings - Delphinia picta small fly - Euxesta pechumani - female fly 3 - Delphinia picta Fly ex inner bark, boxelder - Callopistromyia strigula Chaetopsis? Pennsylvania Fly for ID - Chaetopsis Picture Winged Fly - Pseudotephritina - Pseudotephritina - male - female Black Onion Fly (Tritoxa flexa)? - Tritoxa flexa - male - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")
Superfamily Tephritoidea
Family Ulidiidae (Picture-winged Flies)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Otitidae Aldrich 1932 • name that has been used for a long time but Ulidiidae has priority(1)

Explanation of Names

Ulidiidae Macquart 1835

Numbers

2 subfamilies and 7 tribes, with ~130 spp. in ~40 genera of in our area and ~680 spp. in >100 genera worldwide(2)(3)(4)
Overview of our fauna (* –taxa not yet in the guide; classification from(3)):
Family Ulidiidae
SUBFAMILY ULIDIINAE
Tribe Ulidiini Physiphora · Steneretma
Tribe Seiopterini Homalocephala · Pseudoseioptera · Seioptera
Tribe *Pterocallini *Xanthacrona
Tribe Lipsanini Acrosticta · *Axiologina · Chaetopsis · Eumetopiella · Euxesta · Notogramma · Stenomyia · Zacompsia
SUBFAMILY OTITINAE
Tribe Cephaliini *Cephalia · Delphinia · Myiomyrmica · Myrmecothea · Tritoxa
Genera incertae sedis possibly related to Cephaliini Curranops · Diacrita · *Haigia · Idana · *Psaeropterella · *Tujunga
Tribe Otitini Ceroxys · Herina · *Hiatus · Melieria · Otites · Tetanops
Tribe Myennidini Dyscrasis · Callopistromyia · Oedopa · Paroedopa · Pseudotephritina · Pseudotephritis · Stictomyia · Ulidiotites
Otitinae incertae sedis Tetropismenus · *Texasa

Identification

key to genera in (5)

Food

Larvae feed on decaying organic matter, but a few live in roots(4)

Works Cited

1.Holarctic genus Pseudoseioptera Stackelberg (Diptera: Ulidiidae). Part I. Phylogenetic relationships and taxonomic position
Kameneva E.P., Korneyev V.A. 1994. J. Ukr. Ent. Soc. 1: 65-72.
2.Order Diptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification...
Pape T., Blagoderov V., Mostovski M.B. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 222–229.
3.Myennidini, a new tribe of the subfamily Otitinae (Diptera: Ulidiidae), with discussion of the suprageneric classification...
Kameneva E., Korneyev V. 2006. Isr. J. Entomol. 35-36: 497-586.
4.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
5.An illustrated identification key to the genera of Ulidiidae (Diptera: Tephritoidea) of the United States and Canada
Charles Wallace. 2021. Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification 45: 94 pp.
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 17 August, 2004 - 7:58pm
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, Robin McLeod, Keith Bayless, Bbarnd, John Schneider, v belov, Spencer_pote
Last updated 5 May, 2024 - 4:26pm

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