PIOPHILIDAE
(nest flies, cheese-skippers etc.)

PIOPHILIDAE (nest flies, cheese-skippers etc.) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

PIOPHILIDAE (nest flies, cheese-skippers etc.) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
interactions		 No of
references
Parapiophila flavipes
a fly
Species 1 references
Piophila
cheese-skippers
Genus 1 subtaxa 1 references
Thyreophora cynophila
(A Nest Fly or Cheese Skipper)
Species 1 references
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyPIOPHILIDAE (nest flies, cheese-skippers etc.)
SuperfamilyTEPHRITOIDEA (lance and picture-wing flies)
InfraorderSchizophora - Acalyptratae (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 PIOPHILIDAE (nest flies, cheese-skippers etc.)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Stubbs, A.E. & Chandler, P.J. 2001 A provisional key to British Piophilidae (Diptera) and Parapiophila flavipes (Zetterstedt, 1847) new to Britain Dipterists Digest (2nd Series) Vol 8: 71-78.
Underwood, R. Small Families

PIOPHILIDAE (nest flies, cheese-skippers etc.) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to PIOPHILIDAE (nest flies, cheese-skippers etc.):

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