CONOPIDAE
(thick-headed flies, or beegrabbers and waspgrabbers)

Subtaxon	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Conops a genus of bee- and waspgrabbers	Genus	4 subtaxa	74 images	2 ident. refs
Myopa a genus of beegrabbers	Genus	2 subtaxa	25 images	3 ident. refs
Physocephala rufipes a thick-headed fly	Species		12 images
Sicus a genus of beegrabbers	Genus	1 subtaxa	48 images	1 ident. refs
Thecophora a genus of beegrabbers	Genus	3 subtaxa	36 images	2 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	CONOPIDAE (thick-headed flies, or beegrabbers and waspgrabbers)
Superfamily	CONOPOIDEA (thick-headed flies)
Infraorder	Schizophora - Acalyptratae (an infraorder of flies)
Order	DIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

CONOPIDAE is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

Author	Year	Title	Source
Clements, D.	1995	The Conopid Fauna of Britain, with reference to some possible additions	Conopid Recording Scheme Newsletter 6 Conopid Recording Scheme Newsletter No 6.
Falk, S.		Diptera (flies)	www.flickr.com/photos/63075200@N07/collections/72157629586945825/
Smit, J.T.	2013	Veldtabel blaaskopvliegen van Nederland (Diptera: Conopidae)	http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/507043
Smith, K.G.V.	1969	Diptera: Conopidae	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects , Vol X. Part 3(a), 19pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
van Veen, M.		Conopidae of Northwest Europe	home.hccnet.nl/mp.van.veen/conopidae/index.html

CONOPIDAE (thick-headed flies, or beegrabbers and waspgrabbers) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for CONOPIDAE (thick-headed flies, or beegrabbers and waspgrabbers)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 44 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for CONOPIDAE (thick-headed flies, or beegrabbers and waspgrabbers)

A small family of flies whose larvae are internal parasites of bees or wasps. The adults visit flowers. Those of the subfamily Conopinae are brightly coloured and can often be conspicuous on flowers, especially Ragwort, in summer. Those of the other subfamily, Myopinae, are duller and need more careful searching.

Adults often found on flowers in summer.

Lazy bumblebees are said to be parasitised and there have been reports of Conopids emerging from bees collected from flowers in the evening and kept over winter.

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

CONOPIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)