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BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)
BILATERIA
(bilaterally symmetrical animals)
PROTOSTOMIA
(protostomes)
ECDYSOZOA
(skin shedders)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
PTERYGOTA
(winged insects)
Neoptera
(an infraclass of insects)
Endopterygota
(insects with wings developing internally)
DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)
CYCLORRHAPHA
(a suborder of flies)
Schizophora
(a section of flies)
CALYPTRATA
(calypterate flies)
RHINOPHORIDAE
(woodlouse parasite flies)
Rhinophoridae
is also a member of:
Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

RHINOPHORIDAE (woodlouse parasite flies)

Notes (MWS) A small family of small slender black bristly flies. The larvae are mostly parasitoids of woodlice.

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #photos #macrophotos
Species Paykullia maculata (Fallén) (a woodlouse parasite fly) 4 9
Species Rhinophora lepida (Meigen) (a woodlouse parasite fly) 4 3

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

van Emden, F.I., 1954 (P97) Diptera: Cyclorrhapha Calyptrata (I) Sect (a) Tachinidae and Calliphoridae

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 3 general literature references to RHINOPHORIDAE (woodlouse parasite flies)

RHINOPHORIDAE may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 ANIMALIA
(animals)		 ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)		 INSECTA
(insects)		 DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 8 feeding and other relationships of RHINOPHORIDAE (woodlouse parasite flies)

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