Tôrres, Alice;Rafael, José A.;Gaimari, Stephen D.;Limeira-De-Oliveira, Francisco
Odiniidae
Sign in to savethumb|Odinia cf. boletina on Fomes fomentarius Odiniidae is a small family of flies. There are only 58 described species but there are representatives in all the major biogeographic realms.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderDiptera
- FamilyOdiniidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 99
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Odiniidae
- Collections
- UAM, NRM
- Recorded in
- United States, Sweden
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Opomyzoidea
- Image
- EuropäischenZweiflügeligen1790TafCCXLV.jpg
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- taxon name
- Odiniidae
- taxon rank
- family
- topic's main category
- Category:Odiniidae
- Commons category
- Odiniidae
- taxon common name
- kjukefluer
- diel cycle
- diurnality
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Family description
- Taxonomy
- Identification
- Other literature
- Species lists
- External links
- Sources
thumb|Odinia cf. boletina on Fomes fomentarius Odiniidae is a small family of flies. There are only 58 described species but there are representatives in all the major biogeographic realms.
Life histories are known for only few species of Odinia, and no biological information is available for the majority of species in the family. Known odiniid larvae live in the tunnels of wood-boring larvae of Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, and other Diptera and function as scavengers or predators of the host larvae. One species, Turanodinia coccidarum Stackelberg, has been reared from the egg masses of Pseudococcus comstocki Kuwana, a mealybug.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Odiniidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.