Odiniidae

Odiniidae
Odinia maculata figured in Europäischen Zweiflügeligen (fig. 9)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Superfamily: Opomyzoidea
Family: Odiniidae
Subfamilies
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.

Family description

See which as well as text has excellent illustrations of Odinia viz .

Taxonomy

Identification

Other literature

Species lists

Sources

  1. ↑ Papp, L. Papp, L.; Darvas, B. (eds.). 3.18. Family Odiniidae, in: Contributions to a Manual of Palaearctic Diptera (Print). Vol. 3 Higher Brachycera. Budapest: Science Herald. pp. 233–242.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Gaimari, Stephen D. (2007). "Three new Neotropical genera of Odiniidae (Diptera: Acalyptratae)". Zootaxa. 1443. New Zealand: Magnolia Press: 1–16. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1443.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.