Nerioidea

Short description: Superfamily of flies

Nerioidea

Telostylinus lineolatus from India
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Diptera
Section:  | Schizophora
Subsection:  | Acalyptratae
Superfamily:  | Nerioidea
Families

Cypselosomatidae
Fergusoninidae
Micropezidae \- stilt-legged flies
Neriidae \- cactus flies
Pseudopomyzidae
Strongylophthalmyiidae
Tanypezidae

Nerioidea is a superfamily of Acalyptratae flies.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Description
* 2 Ecology
* 3 Notable species
* 4 References

## Description

As flies, Nerioidea undergo complete metamorphosis with the four life stages of egg, larva, pupa and adult. The adult stage has three body segments (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of legs and one pair of wings.[2]

Some features that distinguish adult Nerioidea from other flies are: a face that's usually weakly sclerotised (except in Fergusoninidae), antenna usually porrect or slightly deflexed (elbowed in Tanypezidae), wing veins R2+3 and R4+5 usually convergent, and the wing anal cell usually much smaller than the subcostal cell.[3]

## Ecology

Most Nerioidea are associated with dead and decaying organic matter such as dead wood, rotting fruit and bat dung. On the other hand, Fergusoninidae form galls in plants of family Myrtaceae, and some Micropezidae have larvae that are predatory or agricultural pests.[3]

## Notable species

* Glyphidops flavifrons - can be found in the Nearctic and Neotropical regions [4]

## References

1. ↑ "Nerioidea". http://www.tolweb.org/Nerioidea/10530.
2. ↑ Resh, Vincent H.; Carde, Ring T. (2009-07-22) (in en). Encyclopedia of Insects. Academic Press. pp. 284–297. ISBN 978-0-08-092090-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=Jk0Hym1yF0cC&pg=PA284.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lonsdale, Owen (2020-02-17). "Family groups of Diopsoidea and Nerioidea (Diptera: Schizophora)—Definition, history and relationships". Zootaxa 4735 (1): 1–177. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4735.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 32230232. https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4735.1.1.
4. ↑ Mondragón, Andrés Felipe Vinasco; Gironza, Nancy Soraya Carrejo (2016). "Morphology and development rate of the immature stages of Glyphidops (Oncopsia) flavifrons (Bigot, 1886) (Diptera, Neriidae) under natural conditions" (in en). ZooKeys (603): 141–159. doi:10.3897/zookeys.603.7355. PMID 27551201.

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