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Rhinophoridae (woodlouse flies)

Wikipedia Abstract

Rhinophoridae is a family of flies (Diptera). They are found in all zoogeographic regions except Australasia and Oceania but mainly in the Palaearctic and Afrotropical regions. 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 occasionally snails. By 2014 there were about 23 genera in the family with a total of about 150 species. More are being described continually. Genera include:
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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0