Picture-winged fly

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Picture-winged flies

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Infraorder: Muscomorpha
Superfamily: Tephritoidea
Family: Ulidiidae
Subfamilies

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The name picture-winged fly is sometimes used in a colloquial sense for various fly families in the superfamily Tephritoidea that have patterns of bands or spots on the wings, but is more correctly applied solely to the family Ulidiidae (which was formerly known as Otitidae). This is a large and diverse cosmopolitan family, and, as in related families, most species are herbivorous or saprophagous.

Most species share with the Tephritidae an unusual elongated projection of the anal cell in the wing, but can be differentiated by the smoothly-curving subcostal vein.

[edit] Genera

Genera include:

  • Acrosticta
  • Axiologina
  • Callopistromyia
  • Cephalia
  • Ceroxys
  • Chaetopsis
  • Curranops
  • Delphinia
  • Diacrita
  • Dorycera
  • Dyscrasis
  • Eumetopiella
  • Euxesta
  • Haigia
  • Herina
  • Hiatus
  • Homalocephala
  • Idana
  • Meckelia
  • Melieria
  • Myennis
  • Myiomyrmica
  • Myrmecothea
  • Notogramma
  • Oedopa
  • Otites
  • Paroedopa
  • Physiphora
  • Prionella
  • Psaeropterella
  • Pseudoseioptera
  • Pseudotephritis
  • Seioptera
  • Steneretma
  • Stenomyia
  • Stictomyia
  • Tetanops
  • Tetropismenus
  • Texasa
  • Timia
  • Tritoxa
  • Tujunga
  • Ulidia
  • Ulidiopsis
  • Ulidiotites
  • Xanthacrona
  • Zacompsia

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