PHORIDAE
(scuttle flies)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
Megaselia
a genus of scuttle flies
Genus 1 ident. refs
Phalacrotophora
ladybird parasite scuttle flies
Female (Click to open)Female (Click to open)Female (Click to open)
 		Genus 4 subtaxa 9 images 4 ident. refs
Phoridae (unidentified)
Unidentified Scuttle Flies
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 		Unidentified 1 images
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyPHORIDAE (scuttle flies)
SuperfamilyPLATYPEZOIDEA (scuttle flies, flat-footed flies & big-footed flies)
InfraorderEremoneura - Cyclorrhapha (an infraorder of flies)
OrderDIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
() Disney, R.H.L. 1983 Scuttle Flies, Diptera, Phoridae (except Megaselia) Handbook for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 10, Part 6, 81pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

PHORIDAE (scuttle flies) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for PHORIDAE (scuttle flies)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 28 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for PHORIDAE (scuttle flies)
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