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