Ulidiidae

Ulidiidae
Tritoxa incurva
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Superfamily: Tephritoidea
Family: Ulidiidae
Macquart, 1835
Subfamilies
Synonyms
  • Ortalidae
  • Otitidae

The Ulidiidae (formerly Otitidae) are a large and diverse cosmopolitan family of flies (Diptera), and as in related families, most species are herbivorous or saprophagous. They are often known as picture-winged flies, along with members of other families in the superfamily Tephritoidea that have patterns of bands or spots on the wings. Some species share with the Tephritidae an unusual elongated posteroapical projection of the anal cell in the wing, but can be differentiated by the smoothly curving subcostal vein. Two species, Tetanops myopaeformis and Euxesta stigmatias, are agricultural pests.

Tropical Ulidiidae
Callopistromyia annulipes

Systematics

The Ulidiidae are divided into two subfamilies.[1]

Subfamily Otitinae

Tribe Cephaliini Schiner, 1864
Tribe Myennidini Kameneva & Korneyev, 2005
Tribe Otitini Aldrich, 1932
Otitinae incertae sedis
  • Curranops Harriot, 1942
  • Diacrita Gerstäcker, 1860
  • Haigia Steyskal, 1961
  • Idana Loew, 1873
  • Psaeropterella Hendel, 1914
  • Pseudomelieria Brèthes, 1921
  • Tetropismenus Loew, 1876
  • Tujunga Steyskal, 1961

Subfamily Ulidiinae

Tribe Lipsanini Enderlin, 1838
Tribe Pterocallini
  • Aciuroides Hendel, 1914
  • Apterocerina Hendel, 1909
  • Chondrometopum Hendel, 1909
  • Coscinum Hendel, 1909
  • Cymatozus Enderlein, 1912
  • Cyrtomostoma Hendel, 1909
  • Dasymetopa Loew, 1868
  • Elapata Hendel, 1909
  • Goniaeola Hendel, 1909
  • Lathrostigma Enderlein
  • Megalaemyia Hendel, 1909
  • Micropterocerus Hendel, 1914
  • Neomyennis Hendel, 1914
  • Ophthalmoptera Hendel, 1909
  • Paragoniaeola?
  • Paragorgopis Giglio-Tos, 1893
  • Parophthalmoptera?
  • Perissoza?
  • Plagiocephalus Wiedemann, 1830
  • Pterocalla Rondani, 1848
  • Pterocerina Hendel, 1909
  • Sympaectria Hendel, 1909
  • Rhyparella Hendel, 1909
  • Terpnomyennis Kameneva, 2004
  • Terpnomyia Hendel, 1909
  • Tetrapleura Schiner, 1868
  • Xanthacrona Wulp, 1899
Tribe Seiopterini
Syn.: Psairoptera
Syn.: Ortalis Fallén, 1810
Tribe Ulidiini Macquart, 1835

References

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