Piophilidae

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Related to Piophilidae: Cheese skipper, Neottiophilidae

Piophilidae

[‚pī·ə′fil·ə‚dē]

(invertebrate zoology)

The skipper flies, a family of myodarian cyclorrhaphous dipteran insects in the subsection Acalypteratae.

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Cheese Fly

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Key to Forensically Important Piophilidae (Diptera) in the Nearctic Region.

0,02 7 Piophilidae Piophila casei 8,70 100 Ulidiidae Ulidiidae sp.

Preliminary study of necrophagous Diptera associated with boar corpse (Sus scrofa) in a semi-arid environment in eastern Algeria: Implications in forensic entomology

Sexual selection, Genetic architecture, and the condition dependence of body shape in the sexually dimorphic fly Prochyliza xanthostoma (Piophilidae).

Determinacion del dimorfismo sexual en la forma corporal de Chiasognathus grantii (Coleoptera: Lucanidae)

Additionally, species of Piophilidae, Phoridae, Stratiomyiidae, Ulidiidae, Sphaeroceridae, Sepsidae, and Syrphidae have been recorded to feed on carcasses and cadavers (Catts & Goff 1992; Vasconcelos et al.

Diversity of forensically-important dipteran species in different environments in northeastern Brazil, with notes on the attractiveness of animal baits

En cuerpos con mayor grado de descomposicion, otras especies dan informacion sobre el IPM, las cuales son principalmente especies necrofilicas del orden Coleoptera u otras familias de Diptera como Piophilidae y Muscidae (Oliva 1997; Arnaldos et al.