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Odiniidae
Odiniidae is a small family of flies. There are only 58 described species but there are representatives in all the major biogeographic realms.
Life histories are known for only few species of Odinia, and no biological information is available for the majority of species in the family. Known odiniid larvae live in the tunnels of wood-boring larvae of Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, and other Diptera and function as scavengers or predators of the host larvae. One species, Turanodinia coccidarum Stackelberg, has been reared from the egg masses of Pseudococcus comstocki Kuwana, a mealybug.
9 branches of this family, most-observed first
Traginops
genusTraginops
Odinia
genusOdinia
Neoalticomerus
genusNeoalticomerus
Neotraginops
genusNeotraginops
Schildomyia
genusSchildomyia
Helgreelia
genusHelgreelia
Turanodinia
genusTuranodinia
Paratraginops
genusParatraginops
Umbodinia
genusUmbodinia
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 329916.