PIPUNCULIDAE
(big-headed flies)

PIPUNCULIDAE (big-headed flies) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

PIPUNCULIDAE (big-headed flies) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
interactions		 No of
references
CHALARINAE
a subfamily of big-headed flies
Subfamily 2 subtaxa 2 references
PIPUNCULINAE
a subfamily of big-headed flies
Subfamily 4 subtaxa 8 references
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyPIPUNCULIDAE (big-headed flies)
SuperfamilySYRPHOIDEA (hover flies, drone flies, flower flies & big-headed flies)
InfraorderEremoneura - Cyclorrhapha (an infraorder of flies)
OrderDIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for PIPUNCULIDAE (big-headed flies)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Ackland, D.M. 2002 Test keys to British Eudorylini (including figures of the male and female genitalia) The Piercer No 3.
Coe, R.L. 1966 Pipunculidae Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, X part 2(c), 83pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

PIPUNCULIDAE (big-headed flies) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Gibbs, D. The Pipunculidae Study Group davidjgibbs.webs.com/pipunculidae.htm
Pipunculid Recording Scheme The Piercer Published for/by:Pipunculid Recording Scheme, Dipterists Forum
Withers, P. 2006 Some records of rare or little known species of Pipunculidae (Diptera) in Britain Dipterists Digest (2nd Series) 13: 26.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to PIPUNCULIDAE (big-headed flies):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 29 images of PIPUNCULIDAE (big-headed flies)
Creative Commons License
This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioInfo website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

BioInfo - Wildlife Information (UK)