Picture-winged fly

Taxobox
name = Picture-winged flies

---

image_caption = "Physiphora alceae" (Preyssler, 1791)
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota|
ordo = Diptera
infraordo = Muscomorpha
zoosectio = Schizophora
zoosubsectio = Acalyptratae
superfamilia = Tephritoidea
familia = Ulidiidae
familia_authority = Macquart, 1835
subdivision_ranks = Subfamilies
subdivision = *Otitinae
*Ulidiinae
synonyms = *Ortalidae
*Otitidae

The name picture-winged fly is sometimes used in a colloquial sense for various fly families in the superfamily Tephritoidea that have patterns of bands or spots on the wings, but is more correctly applied solely to the family Ulidiidae (which was formerly known as Otitidae). This is a large and diverse cosmopolitan family, and, as in related families, most species are herbivorous or saprophagous.

Most species share with the Tephritidae an unusual elongated projection of the anal cell in the wing, but can be differentiated by the smoothly-curving subcostal vein.

Genera

*"Acrosticta"
*"Axiologina"
*"Callopistromyia"
*"Cephalia" Meigen, 1826
*"Ceroxys" Macquart, 1835
*"Chaetopsis"
*"Curranops"
*"Delphinia"
*"Diacrita"
*"Dorycera" Meigen, 1830
*"Dyscrasis"
*"Eumetopiella"
*"Euxesta" Loew 1868
*"Haigia"
*"Herina" Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
*"Hiatus"
*"Homalocephala" Zetterstedt, 1838
*"Idana"
*"Meckelia"
*"Melieria" Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
*"Myennis" Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
*"Myiomyrmica"
*"Myrmecothea"
*"Notogramma"
*"Oedopa"
*"Otites" Latreille, 1804
*"Paroedopa"
*"Physiphora" Fallén, 1810
*"Prionella"
*"Psaeropterella"
*"Pseudeuxesta" Hendel
*"Pseudoseioptera" Stackelberg 1955
*"Pseudotephritis" Johnson 1802
*"Seioptera" Kirby, 1817
*"Steneretma"
*"Stenomyia"
*"Stictomyia"
*"Tetanops" Fallén, 1820
*"Tetropismenus"
*"Texasa"
*"Timia" Wiedemann 1824
*"Tritoxa"
*"Tujunga"
*"Ulidia" Meigen, 1826
*"Ulidiopsis" Hennig 1939
*"Ulidiotites"
*"Xanthacrona"
*"Zacompsia"

Gallery

External links

* [http://www.diptera.info/photogallery.php?album=16 Images of Ulidiidae from Diptera.info]
* [http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=10970 Fauna Europaea]
* [http://www.nearctica.com/nomina/diptera/dipm-p.htm#anchor171304 Nomina Insecta Nearctica]
* [http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/misc/flies/delphinia_picta.htm "Delphinia picta"] on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site
* [http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/field/cornsilk_fly.htm "Euxesta stigmatias", cornsilk fly] on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site