Acrocerinae | |
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Acrocera orbiculus , Italy | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Acroceridae |
Subfamily: | Acrocerinae Leach, 1815 |
Genera | |
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Acrocerinae is a subfamily of small-headed flies in the family Acroceridae. Their larvae are endoparasites of araneomorph spiders, with the exception of Carvalhoa appendiculata which can develop as ectoparasitoids on their host spiders. [1] Traditionally, the subfamily included the genera now placed in Cyrtinae and Ogcodinae, but the subfamily in this sense was found to be polyphyletic and was split up in 2019. [1] [2]
The subfamily includes two extant genera and one extinct: [1]
The extinct fly genus † Burmacyrtus Grimaldi & Hauser in Grimaldi, Arillo, Cumming & Hauser, 2011 [4] was originally placed in this subfamily as well, but according to Gillung & Winterton (2017) it is not considered an acrocerid. [5]