| Rhinophorinae | |
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| Stevenia sp. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| (unranked): | Cyclorrhapha |
| Section: | Schizophora |
| Subsection: | Calyptratae |
| Superfamily: | Oestroidea |
| Family: | Calliphoridae |
| Subfamily: | Rhinophorinae Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863[1] |
| Tibes | |
| Synonyms | |
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Axiniidae Colless, 1994[2] | |
Rhinophorinae is a subfamily of flies (Diptera), commonly known as Woodlouse Flies,[3] found in all zoogeographic regions except Oceania, but mainly in the Palaearctic and Afrotropical regions.
They are small, slender, black, bristly flies phylogenetically close to the Tachinidae, formally many authors considered them a family, they are now a subfamily in the Calliphoridae.[4] The larvae are mostly parasitoids of woodlice, beetles, spiders, and other arthropods, and occasionally snails.
By 2020, about 33 genera were placed in the family, with a total 177 species.[3]
- ^ Robineau-Desvoidy, J.B. (1863). Histoire naturelle des diptères des environs de Paris. Tome premiere. Paris: Masson et Fils. pp. xii + 1143.
- ^ Colless DH (1994). "A new family of muscoid Diptera from Australasia, with sixteen new species in four new genera (Diptera: Axiniidae)". Invertebrate Taxonomy. 10 (2): 471–534. doi:10.1071/IT9940471.
- ^ a b Cerretti, Pierfilippo; Badano, Davide; Gisondi, Silvia; Lo Giudice, Giuseppe; Pape, Thomas (15 Jan 2020). "The world woodlouse flies (Diptera, Rhinophoridae)". ZooKeys (903): 1–130. Bibcode:2020ZooK..903....1C. doi:10.3897/zookeys.903.37775. PMC 6976704. PMID 31997887. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
- ^ Yan, Liping; Pape, Thomas; Meusemann, Karen; Kutty, Sujatha Narayanan; Meier, Rudolf; Bayless, Keith M; Zhang, Dong (2021). "Monophyletic blowflies revealed by phylogenomics". BMC Biology. 19 (230): 230. doi:10.1186/s12915-021-01156-4. PMC 8555136. PMID 34706743.