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Big-headed Flies
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Big-headed Flies

Pipunculidae

Pipunculidae is a family of flies (Diptera) commonly termed big-headed flies, a reference to the large (holoptic) eyes, which cover nearly the entire head. The family is found worldwide and more than 1300 species have been described.

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4 branches of this family, most-observed first

Pipunculinae

subfamilyPipunculinae

Nephrocerinae

subfamilyNephrocerinae

Chalarinae

subfamilyChalarinae

Protonephrocerinae

subfamilyProtonephrocerinae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 144038.