Pyrgotidae

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Family of flies

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::summary Family of flies ::

| taxon = Pyrgotidae | image = Pyrgotella chagnoni.jpg | image_caption = Pyrgotella chagnoni | display_parents = 3 | authority = Loew, 1868 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = see text

The Pyrgotidae are an unusual family of flies (Diptera), one of only two families of Cyclorrhapha that lack ocelli. Most species are "picture-winged" (i.e., have patterns of bands or spots on the wings), as is typical among the Tephritoidea, but unlike other tephritoids, they are endoparasitoids; the females pursue scarab beetles in flight, laying an egg on the beetle's back under the elytra where the beetle cannot reach it. The egg hatches and the fly larva enters the body cavity of the beetle, feeding and eventually killing the host before pupating. In the United States, some species of Pyrgota and Sphecomyiella can be quite common in areas where their host beetles (typically the genus Phyllophaga, or "June beetles") are abundant. Like their host beetles, these flies are primarily nocturnal, and are often attracted to artificial lights.

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Genera

References

References

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  2. (2004). "Genera of Palaearctic Pyrgotidae (Diptera, Acalyptrata), with nomenclatural notes and a key". Vestnik Zoologii.
  3. (1913). "Neue Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pyrgotinen". Archiv für Naturgeschichte.
  4. (1842). "''Adapsilia''. Genre de Dipteres apparenant a la sous-tribu Dolichoceres de Macquart, voisin de Sepedon et Tetanocera". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France.
  5. (1958). "A review of Australian Pyrgotidae (Diptera)". Australian Journal of Zoology.
  6. Korneyev, V. A.. (2015). "Pyrgotid flies assigned to ''Apyrgota''. III. Species of ''Afropyrgota'' gen. n. and ''Tylotrypes'' (Diptera, Pyrgotidae)". Vestnik Zoologii.
  7. (1954). "Notes and descriptions on Australian fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)". Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society.
  8. (1978). "Synopsis of the North American Pyrgotidae (Diptera)". The Entomological Society of Washington.
  9. (1956). "Revisión parcial de las Pyrgotidae neotropicales y antárticas, con sinopsis de los géneros y especies (Diptera, Acalyptratae). Parte I". Revista Brasileira de Entomologia.
  10. (1942). "Klassifikation der Pyrogotiden". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin.
  11. (1908). "Acht neue Pyrgotinen (Dipt.)". Wiener Entomologische Zeitung.
  12. (1907). "Nomina nova fur mehrere Gattungen der acalyptraten Musciden". Wiener Entomologische Zeitung.
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  22. (1914). "Indian Pyrgotinae (Diptera)". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.
  23. (2011). "Order Diptera Linnaeus, 1758. ''In'': Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness". Zootaxa.

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