Ulidiidae

Ulidiidae
Tritoxa incurva
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Section: Schizophora
Superfamily: Tephritoidea
Family: Ulidiidae
Macquart, 1835
Subfamilies
Synonyms
  • Ortalidae
  • Otitidae

Ulidiidae (formerly Otitidae) is a large and diverse cosmopolitan family, and, as in related families, most species are herbivorous or saprophagous. They are often known as picture-winged flies, along with members of other families in the superfamily Tephritoidea that have patterns of bands or spots on the wings. 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.

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Systematics

The Ulidiidae are grouped into two subfamilies.[1]

Subfamily Otitinae

Tribe Cephaliini
Tribe Myennidini
Tribe Otitini
Otitinae Incertae sedis

Subfamily Ulidiinae

Tribe Lipsanini
Tribe Pterocallini
Tribe Seiopterini
Syn.: Psairoptera
Syn.: Ortalis Fallén, 1810
Tribe Ulidiini

References

  1. ^ Elena P. Kameneva & Valery A. Korneyev (2006). "Myennidini, a new tribe of the subfamily Otitinae (Diptera: Ulidiidae), with discussion of the suprageneric classification of the family" (PDF). Israel Journal of Entomology 35-36: 497–586. https://sites.google.com/site/seioptera/list-of-references/2006_Kameneva_%26_Korneyev_1.pdf. 

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