PIOPHILIDAE
(nest flies, cheese-skippers etc.)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
Parapiophila flavipes
a fly
Species 1 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyPIOPHILIDAE (nest flies, cheese-skippers etc.)
SuperfamilyTEPHRITOIDEA (lance and picture-wing flies)
InfraorderSchizophora - Acalyptratae (an infraorder of flies)
OrderDIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Stubbs, A.E. & Chandler, P.J. 2001 A provisional key to British Piophilidae (Diptera) and Parapiophila flavipes (Zetterstedt, 1847) new to Britain Dipterists Digest (2nd Series) Vol 8: 71-78.
Underwood, R. Small Families

PIOPHILIDAE (nest flies, cheese-skippers etc.) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for PIOPHILIDAE (nest flies, cheese-skippers etc.)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for PIOPHILIDAE (nest flies, cheese-skippers etc.)
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