PIPUNCULIDAE
(big-headed flies)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
CHALARINAE a subfamily of big-headed flies					Subfamily	2 subtaxa		2 ident. refs
PIPUNCULINAE a subfamily of big-headed flies					Subfamily	5 subtaxa	29 images	8 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	PIPUNCULIDAE (big-headed flies)
Superfamily	SYRPHOIDEA (hover flies, drone flies, flower flies & big-headed flies)
Infraorder	Eremoneura - Cyclorrhapha (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)

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

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Ackland, D.M.	2002	Test keys to British Eudorylini (including figures of the male and female genitalia)	The Piercer No 3.
	Coe, R.L.	1966	Pipunculidae	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, X part 2(c), 83pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

PIPUNCULIDAE (big-headed 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 PIPUNCULIDAE (big-headed flies)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for PIPUNCULIDAE (big-headed flies)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

PIPUNCULIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)