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The Ulidiidae (formerly Otitidae) or picture-winged flies are a large and diverse cosmopolitan family of flies (Diptera), and as in related families, most species are herbivorous or detritivorous. They are often known as picture-winged flies, along with members of other families in the superfamily Tephritoidea that have patterns of bands or ...
Delphinia picta is a species of picture-winged fly in the family Ulidiidae.The specific name picta is from Latin and means "painted." [6] It is the only species in the monospecific genus Delphinia.
Rhyothemis variegata, [2] known as the common picture wing [3] [4] or variegated flutterer, is a species of dragonfly of the family Libellulidae, ...
Ceroxys latiusculus, or the narrow-banded picture-winged fly, is a species of ulidiid or picture-winged fly in the genus Ceroxys of the family Ulidiidae. [1] [2] [3] Adults are 9-12 mm in length. The abdomen is black with gray bands and the wings have distinctive markings. Larvae feed on Senecio. [4]
Euleia heraclei (Tephritidae), showing the patterned wings. Tephritoidea are generally rather hairy flies with setae weakly differentiated. They have the following synapomorphies: male tergum 6 strongly reduced or absent; surstylus or medial surstylus with toothlike prensisetae (in Piophilidae only in one genus); female sterna 4-6 with anterior rodlike apodemes; female tergosternum 7 ...
Cecidomyiidae are minute to small (0.5–3.0 mm), rarely larger (up to 8 mm, wing length 15 mm) flies with a delicate appearance. Except for a few genera with reduced wings, the eyes are holoptic. The mouthparts are reduced. Cecidomyiid antennae are notably long, with 12–14 segments, (sometimes fewer and up to 40 in some genera).
Eutreta diana is a species in the family Tephritidae, known as fruit flies in North America and picture wing flies in Europe. [4] Females lay eggs in vegetative buds of several species and subspecies of sagebrush in western North America. [5] Larvae induce woody galls near their oviposition site and feed on the plant internally until they mature.
Timia asiatica is a species of ulidiid or picture-winged fly in the genus Timia of the family Ulidiidae. [1] References This page was last edited on 25 May ...