Odiniidae

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Odiniidae

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Suborder:	Brachycera
Section:	Schizophora
Subsection:	Acalyptratae
Superfamily:	Opomyzoidea
Family:	Odiniidae

Genera

Neoalticomerus
Odinia
Traginops
Turanodinia

Odiniidae is a small family of flies. There are only 58 described species but there are representatives in all the major biogeographic realms.

Life histories are known for only few species of Odinia, and no biological information is available for the majority of species in the family. Known odiniid larvae live in the tunnels of wood-boring larvae of Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, and other Diptera and function as scavengers or predators of the host larvae. One species, Turanodinia coccidarum Stackelberg, has been reared from the egg masses of Pseudococcus comstocki Kuwana, a Mealybug.

1 Family description
2 Identification
3 Other literature
4 Species lists
5 External links
6 Sources

[edit] Family description

See [1]which as well as text has excellent illustrations of Odinia viz [2].

[edit] Identification

Cogan, B.H.,1975 New Taxa in Two Families Previously Unrecorded from the Ethiopian Region(Diptera, Odiniidae and Diastatidae). Ann. Natal Mus. 22(2):471-488. Key to Afrotropic genera and species.
Prado, A. P., 1973 Contribuicão ao Conhecimento da Familia Odiniidae (Diptera, Acalyptratae). Studia Entomologica, Petrópolis, v. 16, n. 1-4, p. 481-510. Keys world genera.
Collin, J.E. (1952), On the European species of the genus Odinia R.-D. (Diptera: Odiniidae). Proceedings of the Royal entomological Society of London (B) 21: 110-116.

[edit] Other literature

Papp, L., 1978 71. család: Odiniidae - Taplólegyek.In: Dély-Draskovits Á. & Papp L., Taplólegyek - Gabonalegyek. Odiniidae - Chloropidae. Fauna Hung., 133, 202 pp. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest. (In Hungarian).

[edit] Species lists

http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=62962 Palaearctic
http://www.nearctica.com/nomina/diptera/dipm-p.htm#anchor169558 Nearctic
http://konchudb.agr.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp/mokuroku/ Japan
http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/aocat/odiniidae.html Australasian/Oceanian

[edit] External links

http://www.diptera.info/photogallery.php?album_id=32 Images from Diptera.info

[edit] Sources

Papp, L. 1998. Family Odiniidae. I: Papp, L. and Darvas, B. (red.): Contributions to a Manual of Palaearctic Diptera. 3: 233-242. Science Herald, Budapest.