Otitinae

Otitinae
Otites formosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Ulidiidae
Subfamily: Otitinae
Aldrich, 1932

Otitinae is a subfamily of fly in the family Ulidiidae. It was formally the Otitidae. Like the Ulidiinae, 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. Most are dull gray to shiny brown or black flies with vein R1 setulose or, in a few cases, bare.[1]

Tribes and genera

  • Curranops Harriot, 1942
  • Diacrita Gerstäcker, 1860
  • Haigia Steyskal, 1961
  • Idana Loew, 1873
  • Psaeropterella Hendel, 1914
  • Pseudomelieria Brèthes, 1921
  • Tetropismenus Loew, 1876
  • Tujunga Steyskal, 1961

References

  1. Kameneva, E. P.; Korneyev, V. A. (2006). A. Freidberg, ed. "Biotaxonomy of Tephritoidea". Israel Journal of Entomology (PDF) (Bet Dagan: The Entomological Society of Israel). 35–36: 497–586. ISSN 0075-1243. |chapter= ignored (help)