Ulidiidae
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 Ulidiidae
Most ulidiids are saprophagous; the species are associated with decaying plant matter develop in tissues damaged by other insects or occur under the bark of fallen trees, palms, cacti, stems of tall grasses, in roots, bulbs and onions of Apiaceae and Alliaceae, and rotting stems of parasitic Orobanchaceae (Kameneva & Barraclough 2021). Adults are attracted to compost, dung, bird droppings and carrion (Krivosheina & Krivosheina 1997).
The family is known from North Africa with 21 species, 14 of which occur in Morocco. Theу belong to two subfamilies, Otitinae (tribes Myennidini and Otitini) with 6 genera and 10 species and Ulidiinae (tribe Ulidiini) with 3 genera and 11 species (Morgulis & Freidberg 2014; El-Hawagry 2017; Kettani et al. 2022).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Ulidiidae
- Taxon rank
- family
References
- Kameneva, E. P. & Barraclough, D. A. (2021) Chapter 69. Ulidiidae (picture-winged 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. 1607 - 1618.
- Krivosheina, N. P. & Krivosheina, M. G. (1997) New data on the representatives of the genus Physiphora (Diptera, Ulidiidae). Zoologicheskiy zhurnal, 76, 460 - 465. [in Russian]
- Morgulis, E. & Freidberg, A. (2014) The Ulidiini (Diptera: Tephritoidea: Ulidiidae) of Israel, with a key to the world species of Ulidia and description of five new species. Zootaxa, 3780 (2), 201 - 247. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3780.2.1
- 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
- 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