- Piophila
Taxobox
image_caption="Piophila casei"
name = Piophila
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
subphylum =Hexapoda
classis =Insect a
subclassis =Pterygota
infraclassis =Neoptera
superordo =Endopterygota |
ordo = Diptera
subordo =Brachycera
zoosubsectio =Acalyptratae
superfamilia =Tephritoidea
familia =Piophilidae
genus = Piophila"Piophila" is a
genus of small two-winged flies which includes the species known as theCheese fly . As a whole, the genus is often called wine flies; they preferferment ed foodstuffs to deposit their eggs.pecies
*"Piophila casei" (Linnaeus, 1758), the
cheese fly .
*"Piophila penicillata" (Steyskal, 1964)
*"Piophila senescens" (Melander and Spuler, 1917) (junior synonym - "Piophila nigriceps" (Macquart, 1851))
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