PALLOPTERIDAE
(flutter flies)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Palloptera a genus of flutter flies					Genus	8 subtaxa	41 images	6 ident. refs
Toxonevra a genus of flutter flies					Genus	1 subtaxa	18 images

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	PALLOPTERIDAE (flutter flies)
Superfamily	TEPHRITOIDEA (lance and picture-wing flies)
Infraorder	Schizophora - Acalyptratae (an infraorder of flies)
Order	DIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

PALLOPTERIDAE is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Ozerov, A.L.	2009	A review of the family Pallopteridae (Diptera) of the fauna of Russia	Russian Entomol. J. Vol 18 (2): 129-146.
()	Storey, M.W.	2018	A Pictorial Guide to the Picture Wing Flies of Britain and Ireland
	Stubbs, A.E.	1994	Draft key to British Pallopteridae
Newsletters
	Picture-winged flies Recording Scheme		Picture-winged Flies Recording Scheme Newsletter	Published for/by:Picture-winged flies Recording Scheme, Dipterists Forum

PALLOPTERIDAE (flutter flies) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for PALLOPTERIDAE (flutter flies)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for PALLOPTERIDAE (flutter flies)

This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioImages website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

Photographs from other photographers are used with permission but not included under the above CC licence.

Taxonomic hierarchy:

PALLOPTERIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

Newsletters

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)