Piophilidae Macquart 1835
Authors/Creators
- 1. LESCB URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan, Morocco
- 2. I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Bogdan Khmelnytsky St. 15, 01054 Kyiv, Ukraine and Museum f ¸ r Naturkunde, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Description
Family Piophilidae
Currently, there are five genera and six species recorded from North Africa (Saifi et al. 2016; El-Hawagry 2017; Taleb et al. 2019); three of them occur in Morocco (Kettani et al. 2022). All species belong to the subfamily Piophilinae, which is represented by the tribes Mycetaulini and Piophilini. The Mycetaulini have larvae associated with fungi and are represented by the species Mycetaulus hispanicus Duda, 1927, while the Piophilini are represented by four species, two of the genus Piophila Fallén, including Piophila casei (Linnaeus, 1758), a cosmopolitan associated with corpses, usually in the final stages of decomposition in the wild or as a common pest of proteinaceous animal products (also known as “cheese skipper”) (Muller 2021). The species Piophila megastigmata McAlpine 1978 has been recorded from Spain and Algeria and is associated with impala carcasses (Martín-Vega et al. 2011; Saifi et al. 2016). Prochyliza nigrimana (Meigen, 1826) is a non-Afrotropical sarcosaprophagous species that also develops on carrion or in food (Muller 2021).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Macquart
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Piophilidae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Piophilidae Macquart, 1835 sec. Harym & Korneyev, 2023
References
- Saifi, M., Doumandji, S. & Martin-Vega, D. (2016) Piophila megastigmata McAlpine 1978 (Diptera: Piophilidae): the first record from northern Africa of this forensically relevant fly. Annales de la Societe entomologique de France, New Series, 52, 243 - 246. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00379271.2016.1244491
- El-Hawagry, M. S. (2017) Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae). Zootaxa, 4299 (2), 151 - 190. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4299.2.1
- Taleb, M., Tail, G. & Acikgoz, H. N. (2019) DNA barcoding of Stearibia nigriceps (Meigen) and Piophila casei (Linnaeus) (Diptera: Piophilidae) from Algeria and the first African report of Stearibia nigriceps. International Journal of Legal Medicine, 134 (3), 895 - 902. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00414 - 019 - 02223 - w
- Kettani, K., Ebejer, M. J., Ackland, D. M., Bachli, G., Barraclough, D., Bartak, M., Carles-Tolra, M., Cerny, M., Cerretti, P., Chandler, P., Dakki, M., Daugeron, C., De Jong, H., Dils, J., Disney, H., Droz, B., Evenhuis, N., Gatt, P., Graciolli, G., Grichanov, I. Y., Haenni, J-P., Hauser, M., Himmi, O., Macgowan, I., Mathieu, B., Mouna, M., Munari, L., Nartshuk, E. P., Negrobov, O. P., Oosterbroek, P., Pape, T., Pont, A. C., Popov, G. v., Rognes, K., Skuhrava, M., Skuhravy, V., Speight, M., Tomasovic, G., Trari, B., Tschorsnig, H. - P., Vala, J. - C., von Tschirnhaus, M., Wagner, R., Whitmore, D., Woznica, A. J., Zatwarnicki, T. & Zwick, P. (2022) Catalogue of the Diptera (Insecta) of Morocco an annotated checklist, with distributions and a bibliography. ZooKeys, 1094, 1 - 466. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 1094.62644
- Muller, B. S. (2021) Chapter 68. Piophilidae (skipper flies). In: Kirk-Spriggs, A. H. & Sinclair, B. J. (Eds.), Manual of Afrotropical Diptera. Vol. 3. Brachycera: Cyclorrhapha, excluding Calyptratae. Suricata 6. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, pp. 1597 - 1606.
- Martin-Vega, D., Gomez-Gomez, A., Baz, A. & Dias-Aranda, L. M. (2011) New piophilid in town: the first Palaearctic record of Piophila megastigmata and its coexistence with Piophila case i in central Spain. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 25, 64 - 69. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2915.2010.00907. x