RHINOPHORIDAE
(woodlouse-flies)

RHINOPHORIDAE (woodlouse-flies) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

RHINOPHORIDAE (woodlouse-flies) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa
No of
interactions
No of
references
Species 2 trophisms
Species 1 trophisms
Species 1 trophisms
Species 1 trophisms
Species 1 trophisms
Species 1 trophisms
Species 1 trophisms
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyRHINOPHORIDAE (woodlouse-flies)
SuperfamilyOESTROIDEA (blow-flies, blue-bottles, flesh flies and parasitoid flies)
Section Calyptratae (dung, house & parasitoid flies, blue & green bottles)
InfraorderMuscomorpha (hover, scuttle, acalypterate, dung, house & parasitoid flies, blue/green bottles)
SuborderBRACHYCERA (short-horned flies)
OrderDIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for RHINOPHORIDAE (woodlouse-flies)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Clemons, L. 2010 Progress with recording the woodlouse-flies (Diptera, Rhinophoridae) of Watsonian Kent Newsletter of The Kent Field Club No. 72: 4-16.
Falk, S. Test key to British Rhinophoridae
Falk, S. Diptera (flies) www.flickr.com/photos/63075200@N07/collections/72157629586945825/
Falk, S. 2016 British blowflies (Calliphoridae) and woodlouse flies (Rhinophoridae)
Herting, B. 1961 Die Fliegen der Palaearktischen Region: vol 216 64e Rhinophorinae Die Fliegen der Palaearktischen Region - Flies of the Palaearctic (Lindner, E. ed), 41pp, Schweizerbart and Borntraeger science publishers
van Emden, F.I., 1954 Diptera: Cyclorrhapha Calyptrata (I) Sect (a) Tachinidae and Calliphoridae Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects , Vol X. Part 4(a), 133pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
  • Generic Key

  • Pape, T. 1998 Manual of Palaearctic Diptera Vol 3 - Rhinophoridae Pape, T., 1998. Manual of Palaearctic Diptera Vol 3 - Rhinophoridae, 11pp, Palaearctic Diptera Vol 3: Higher Brachycera

    RHINOPHORIDAE (woodlouse-flies) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

    General Literature

    Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to RHINOPHORIDAE (woodlouse-flies):

    A small family of small slender black bristly flies. The larvae are mostly parasitoids of woodlice.

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