Pujol-Luz, José Roberto;Lamas, Carlos José Einicker
Nemestrinidae
Sign in to saveAlso known as tangle-veined flies
thumb|Moegistorhynchus longirostris thumb|Neorhynchocephalus tauscheri (10) and Hirmoneura obscura (11) in Europäischen Zweiflügeligen Nemestrinidae, or tangle-veined flies is a family of flies in the superfamily Nemestrinoidea, closely related to Acroceridae.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderDiptera
- FamilyNemestrinidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 320
- With media
- 68
- Family
- Nemestrinidae
- Collections
- USNM, INHS, SAM, LACM, AM
- Recorded in
- India, Spain, United States, South Africa, Australia, Chile
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Distribution
- Genera
- Fossil history
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thumb|Moegistorhynchus longirostris thumb|Neorhynchocephalus tauscheri (10) and Hirmoneura obscura (11) in Europäischen Zweiflügeligen Nemestrinidae, or tangle-veined flies is a family of flies in the superfamily Nemestrinoidea, closely related to Acroceridae.
Larvae are endoparasitoids of either grasshoppers (Trichopsideinae) or scarab beetles (Hirmoneurinae). Some are considered important in the control of grasshopper populations. Adults are often observed on flowers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nemestrinidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.