| Cheese flies | |
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| Piophila casei | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Superfamily: | Tephritoidea |
| Family: | Piophilidae Macquart, 1835 |
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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[1] and medical entomology.[2] 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.[3]
- ^ Gennard, Dorothy (2012). Forensic Entomology: An Introduction. Wiley. p. 67. ISBN 978-1-119-94543-7.
- ^ Gary R. Mullen; Lance A. Durden (27 September 2002). Medical and Veterinary Entomology. Academic Press. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-08-053607-1. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
- ^ Gordh, G.; Headrick, David H. (2001). A dictionary of entomology. CABI. p. 701. ISBN 978-0-85199-291-4.