PHORIDAE
(scuttle flies)

PHORIDAE (scuttle flies) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

PHORIDAE (scuttle 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
Megaselia
a genus of scuttle flies
Genus 2 subtaxa 1 trophisms 3 references
Phalacrotophora
ladybird parasite scuttle flies
Genus 5 subtaxa 27 trophisms 4 references
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyPHORIDAE (scuttle flies)
SuperfamilyPLATYPEZOIDEA (scuttle flies, flat-footed flies & big-footed 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 PHORIDAE (scuttle flies)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
() Disney, R.H.L. 1983 Scuttle Flies, Diptera, Phoridae (except Megaselia) Handbook for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 10, Part 6, 81pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

PHORIDAE (scuttle flies) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource

Hosts

Hammond, H.E. & Smith, K.G.V. 1955 On some parasitic Diptera and Hymenoptera bred from lepidopterous hosts. Part 2: misc. records of Phoridae, Larvaevoridae (Dipt.), Braconidae, Ichneumonidae and Eulophidae (Hym.) Ent. Gazette 6: 168-174.
van Emden, F.I. 1950 Dipterous parasites of Coleoptera Ent. Mon. Mag. 88: 182-206.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to PHORIDAE (scuttle flies):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 10 images of PHORIDAE (scuttle flies)
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