| Otitinae | |
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| Otites formosa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Subsection: | Acalyptratae |
| Superfamily: | Tephritoidea |
| Family: | Ulidiidae |
| Subfamily: | Otitinae Aldrich, 1932[1] |
Otitinae is the name of a subfamily of flies in the family Ulidiidae. It was formerly the Otitidae. Like the Ulidiinae, most species are herbivorous or saprophagous. Most species share with the Tephritidae an unusual elongated projection of the anal cell in the wing, but can be differentiated by the smoothly curving subcostal vein. Most are dull gray to shiny brown or black flies with vein R1 setulose or, in a few cases, bare.[2]
- ^ Aldrich, J. M. (1932). "New Diptera, or two-winged flies, from America, Asia, and Java, with additional notes". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 81 (9). The United States National Museum: 1–28. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.81-2932.1. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
- ^ Kameneva, E. P.; Korneyev, V. A. (2006). A. Freidberg (ed.). "Myennidini, a new tribe of the subfamily Otitinae (Diptera: Ulidiidae), with discussion of the suprageneric classification of the family". Israel Journal of Entomology. 35–36. Bet Dagan: The Entomological Society of Israel: 497–586. ISSN 0075-1243.