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Piophilidae

Description

The Piophilidae are a family of "true flies", in the order Diptera. The so-called cheese flies are the best-known members, but most species of the Piophilidae are scavengers in animal products, carrion, and fungi. They may accordingly be important in forensic entomology and medical entomology. For a fly maggot, the larvae of many species have an unusually well-developed ability to leap when alarmed or when abandoning their larval food to pupate; they accordingly may be known as cheese skippers or other kinds of skippers according to their food source.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)9503https://www.gbif.org/species/9503
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)139318https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=139318
Rankfamily
Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Piophilidae
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-Bilateria
-EubilateriaAx 1987
-ProtostomiaGrobben 1908
-Ecdysozoa
-Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumMandibulata
-Pancrustacea
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
-CercofilataKukalová-Peck 1987
classInsectaLinnaeus 1758
-Dicondylia
-ParanotaliaSroka et al. 2014
subclassPterygotaBrauer 1885
-NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
-Holometabola
-Aparaglossata
-Mecopterida
superorderAntliophora
orderDipteraLinnaeus 1758
-NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
-Heterodactyla
-EremoneuraGrimaldi and Cumming 1999
suborderCyclorrhapha
-SchizophoraBecher 1882
superfamilyTephritoideaNewman 1834
familyPiophilidaeMacquart 1835
Common Namecheese skipper
Scientific NamePiophilidae
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Piophilidaefamilybelongs to Brachycerastated without evidenceCarpenter, 1992
Piophilidaefamilybelongs to Tephritoideastated with evidenceWiegmann et al., 2011
Status (PBDB)extant
Taxon Size (PBDB)4
Extant Size (PBDB)3 (75%)
First Recorded Appearance37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene
Environmentterrestrial (based on Insecta)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Arthropoda)
Taphonomychitin (based on Insecta)
Primary Reference (PBDB)F. M. Carpenter. 1992. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part R, Arthropoda 4: Superclass Hexapoda 3/4:1-655
Common Name(s) Cheese Skippers, Skipper Flies, Cheese Skipper, Ostflugor
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piophilidae

External Images

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Actenoptera
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Allopiophila
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Amphipogon
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Bocainamyia
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Boreopiophila
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Centrophlebomyia
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Chaetopiophila
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Diacanthomyia
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Liopiophila
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Mycetaulus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
137.2 Ma
Eocene
0 Ma
Extant
Neopiophila
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Neottiophilum
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Parapiophila
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Piophila
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
0 Ma
Extant
Piophilosoma
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Prochyliza
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Protopiophila
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Protothyreophora
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Pseudoseps
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Pygopiophila
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Thyreophora
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Protopidiophila neotropica
species
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1835Piophilidae Macquart p. 531
1992Piophilidae Carpenter
2011Piophilidae Wiegmann et al.

References

Carpenter F. M. (1992) , Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part R, Arthropoda 4: Superclass Hexapoda 3/4, 1-655
Wiegmann B. M., Trautwein M. D., et al (2011) Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, 5690-5695
Teskey, H. J.,McAlpine, J. F.,Shewell, G. E.,Vockeroth, J. R.,Peterson, B. V.,Wood, D. M. (1987.03.31) Chapter 69. Piophilidae - via The Diptera Site
Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Gärdenfors, Ulf, Hall, Ragnar, Hallingbäck, Tomas, Hansson, Hans G. & Hedström, Lars (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj. ArtDatabanken Rapporterar 5, ArtDatabanken, Uppsala. (reviderad excelfil med svenska djurfamiljer). - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas
Systema Dipterorum (2013) http://www.diptera.org/About.php - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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