Rhinophoridae

Taxobox
name = Rhinophoridae

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image_width = 200px
image_caption = "Stevenia" sp.
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota|
ordo = Diptera
subordo = Brachycera
infraordo = Muscomorpha
zoosectio = Schizophora
zoosubsectio = Calyptratae
superfamilia = Oestroidea
familia = Rhinophoridae
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = *"Melanophora" Meigen, 1803
*"Paykullia" Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
*"Phyto" Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
*"Rhinophora" Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
*"Stevenia" Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
*"Tricogena" Róndani, 1856

Rhinophoridae are a small family of Diptera flies with around 500 species. Rhinophoridae are found in all zoogeographic regions except Australasia and Oceania but mainly in the Palaearctic and Afrotropical regions.

Family description

They are small slender black bristly flies phylogenetically close to Tachinidae although some authors consider them a sister group of Calliphoridae. The larvae are mostly parasitoids of woodlice, beetles, spiders and other arthropods and (a few species of snails).

For a detailed description see [http://delta-intkey.com/britin/dip/www/rhinopho.htm]

Image [http://galerie-insecte.org/galerie/html/IDipteraRhinophoridae.html] click to enlarge

pecies lists

* [http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=10951 Palaearctic]
* [http://www.nearctica.com/nomina/diptera/dipp-s.htm#anchor174402 Nearctic]

Identification (Literature)

* Crosskey, R.W., 1977 "A Review of the Rhinophoridae (Diptera) and a revision of the Afrotropical species" Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. Ent. 36 (1) 66pp.

* Herting, B., 1961. Rhinophorinae. In: Lindner E. (ed.), "Die Fliegen der palaearktischen Region", IX, 64e. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart.

* Seguy, E.,1928. Etudes sur le mouches parasites 2 - Ccalliphorides. Calliphorines (suite), Sarcophaginae et Rhinophorinae de l'Europe occidentale et meridionale.Recherches sur la morphologie et la distribution geographique des Dipteres a larves parasites. "Encyclopédie Entomologique", 9. Lechevalier, Paris.

References

* Haupt J, Haupt H (1998): "Fliegen und Mücken" - Beobachtung, Lebensweise, Augsburg