Platystomatidae
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The Platystomatidae are a distinctive family of flies in the superfamily Tephritoidea.
Platystoma seminationis fg 01
Pogonortalis doclea
Peltacanthina sp.
Plate from Novitates Zoologicae showing the great variation in eyestalk development in Achias rothschildi
Tephritoidea
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The Tephritoidea are a superfamily of flies. It has over 7,800 species, the majority of them in family Tephritidae.
Platystomatidae
…The Platystomatidae (signal flies) are a distinctive family of flies (Diptera) in the superfamily Tephritoidea. Signal flies are worldwide in distribution, found in all the biogeographic realms, but predominantly in the tropics. It is one of several families of…
Physiphora alceae female
Euleia heraclei (Tephritidae), showing the patterned wings