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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

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Food · Works Cited
Odd little fly - Physiphora alceae - female pink gelatinous flying insect beautiful wing markings - Delphinia picta picture winged fly - Delphinia picta 2018-09-07 Picture-winged fly - Delphinia picta Picture-winged Fly Picture-winged fly? - Euxesta Some type of fruit fly? Small Metallic Fly
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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