Ulidiinae

Ulidiinae
Seioptera vibrans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Ulidiidae
Subfamily: Ulidiinae
Macquart, 1835

Ulidiinae is a subfamily of fly in the family Ulidiidae. Like the Otitinae, 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

Syn.: Psairoptera
  • Pseudoseioptera Stackelberg 1955
  • Seioptera Kirby, 1817
Syn.: Ortalis Fallén, 1810


References

  1. Kameneva, E. P.; Korneyev, V. A. (2006). A. Freidberg, ed. "Myennidini, a new tribe of the subfamily Otitinae (Diptera: Ulidiidae), with discussion of the suprageneric classification of the family" (PDF). Israel Journal of Entomology (Bet Dagan: The Entomological Society of Israel). Biotaxonomy of Tephritoidea (volume 35–36): 497–586. ISSN 0075-1243.