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Family Piophilidae Macquart 1835 (cheese skipper)

Insecta - Diptera - Piophilidae

Parent taxon: Tephritoidea according to H. Y. Han and K. E. Ro 2016

See also Carpenter 1992 and Wiegmann et al. 2011

Sister taxa: Herina splendida, Lonchaeidae, Pallopteridae, Platystomatidae, Pyrgotidae, Richardiidae, Tephritidae, Ulidiidae

Subtaxa: Mycetaulus Piophila

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Florissant, Station 13 (Eocene of Colorado)

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