Otitinae Explained

Otitinae is the name of a subfamily of flies in the family Ulidiidae. It was formerly the Otitidae. Like the Ulidiinae, most species are herbivorous or saprophagous. Most species share with the Tephritidae an unusual elongated projection of the anal cell in the wing, but can be differentiated by the smoothly curving subcostal vein. Most are dull gray to shiny brown or black flies with vein R₁ setulose or, in a few cases, bare.^[1]

Tribes and genera

• Tribe Cephaliini

• Acrostictella Hendel, 1914^[2]

• Cephalia Meigen, 1826^[3]

• Delphinia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830^[4]

• Myiomyrmica Steyskal, 1961^[5]

• Myrmecothea Hendel, 1910^[6]

• Proteseia Korneyev & Hernandes, 1998^[7]

• Pterotaenia Rondani, 1868^[8]

• Tritoxa Loew, 1873^[9]
• Tribe Myennidini

• Acatochaeta Enderlein, 1921^[10]

• Arborotites Barraclough, 2000^[11]

• Callopistromyia Hendel, 1907^[12]

• Dyscrasis Aldrich, 1932

• Myennis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830^[4]

• Namibotites Barraclough, 2000^[11]

• Neodyscrasis Kameneva & Korneyev, 2006^[13]

• Oedopa Loew, 1868^[14]

• Paroedopa Coquillett, 1900^[15]

• Pseudodyscrasis Hernández-Ortiz, 1988^[16]

• Pseudotephritina Malloch, 1931^[17]

• Pseudotephritis Johnson, 1902^[18]

• Stictoedopa Brèthes, 1926^[19]

• Stictomyia Bigot, 1885^[20]

• Ulidiotites Steyskal, 1961^[5]
• Tribe Otitini

• Ceroxys Macquart, 1835

• Dorycera Meigen, 1830

• Herina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830^[4]

• Hiatus Cresson, 1906

• Melieria Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830^[4]

• Otites Latreille, 1804

• Tetanops Fallén, 1820

• Ulidiopsis Hennig, 1941
• Otitinae incertae sedis

• Curranops Harriot, 1942

• Diacrita Gerstäcker, 1860

• Haigia Steyskal, 1961^[5]

• Idana Loew, 1873^[9]

• Psaeropterella Hendel, 1914^[2]

• Pseudomelieria Brèthes, 1921

• Tetropismenus Loew, 1876

• Tujunga Steyskal, 1961^[5]

Notes and References

1. Kameneva . E. P. . Korneyev . V. A. . 2006 . Myennidini, a new tribe of the subfamily Otitinae (Diptera: Ulidiidae), with discussion of the suprageneric classification of the family . A. Freidberg . Israel Journal of Entomology . 35–36 . 497–586 . Bet Dagan . The Entomological Society of Israel . 0075-1243 .
2. Hendel . F. . Die Bohrfliegen Sudamerikas . Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königl. Zoologischen und Anthropologisch-Etnographischen Museums zu Dresden . 1914 . (1912)14 . 1-84, 4 pls.
3. Book: Meigen . J.W. . Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten . 1826 . Vierter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann . Hamm . xii + 412 pp., pls. 42–54.
4. Robineau-Desvoidy . André Jean Baptiste . Essai sur les myodaires . Mémoires presentés à l'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, par divers savants et lus dans ses assemblées: Sciences, Mathématiques et Physique . 1830 . 2 . 2 . 1–813 . 15 July 2018.
5. Steyskal . G.C. . The genera of Platystomatidae and Otitidae known to occur in America north of Mexico (Diptera, Acalyptratae) . Annals of the Entomological Society of America . 1961 . 54 . 401–410. 401–410 . 10.1093/aesa/54.3.401 .
6. Hendel . Friedrich Georg . Über die Nomenklatur der Acalyptratengattungen nach Th. Beckers Katalog der paläarktischen Dipteren, Bd. 4 . Wiener entomologische Zeitung . 1910 . 29 . 307–313 . 27 January 2021.
7. Hernández-Ortiz . V. . Kameneva . E.P. . Korneyev . V.A. . A new genus and species of the picture-winged flies (Diptera: Ulidiidae) from Mexico . Zhur. Ukrayn. Ent. Tovar. . 1998 . 4 . 73–79 . 25 June 2022.
8. Rondani . Camillo . Diptera aliqua in America meridionali lecta a Prof. P. Strobel annis 1866-67 distincta et annotata, novis aliquibus descriptis . Annuario della Societàdi naturalisti di Modena . 1868 . 3 . 24–40 . 17 March 2021.
9. Loew . Hermann . Monographs of the Diptera of North America. Part III. . Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections . 1873 . 11 . vii + 351 +XIII pp., 4 pls . 26 January 2021.
10. Günther. Enderlein . 1921 . Zur Kenntnis der Pterocallinen . . 52 . 8/9 . 211–219 .
11. Barraclough . D.A. . A review of the southern African Ulidiidae (Diptera: Schizophora), with description of two new genera . Annals of the Natal Museum . 2000 . 41 . 77–101.
12. Hendel . F. . Nomina nova fur mehrere Gattungen der acalyptraten Musciden . Wiener Entomologische Zeitung . 1907 . 26 . 98 . 10.5962/bhl.part.5119 . 26 June 2022.
13. Kameneva . Elena P. . Korneyev . Valery A. . Myennidini, a new tribe of the subfamily Otitinae (Diptera: Ulidiidae), with discussion of the suprageneric classification of the family . Israel Journal of Entomology . 2006 . 35-36 . 497–586 . 26 June 2022.
14. Loew . Hermann . Die amerikanischen Ulidina . Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift . 1868 . (1867) 11 . 283-326, pl. 2 . 26 June 2022.
15. Coquillett . Daniel William . Notes and descriptions of Ortalidae . Journal of the New York Entomological Society . 1900 . 8 . 21–25 . 26 January 2021.
16. Hernández-Ortiz . V. . Reconsideración taxonómica del género Dyscrasis Aldrich y la descripción de Pseudodyscrasis gen. nov. (Diptera: Otitidae) . Folia Entomológica Mexicana . 1988 . 74 . 181–188.
17. Malloch . J.R. . Flies of the genus Pseudotephritis Johnson (Diptera: Ortalidae) . Proceedings of the United States National Museum . 1931 . 79 . (34)[2900] . 1–6 . 10.5479/si.00963801.79-2900.1 . 26 June 2022.
18. Johnson . Charles Willison . Remarks on Tephronota ruficeps and description of a new species . Entomological News . 1902 . 13 . 143–144 . 26 June 2022.
19. Brèthes . J. . Description d'un nouveau genre et nouvelle espèce d'Ulididae du Chile . Revta Chil. Hist. Nat. . 1926 . 30 . 187–188.
20. Bigot . J.M.F. . Les diagnoses de deux genres nouveaux de diptères appartenant a la famille des Ortalidae . Bulletin (Bimensuel) de la Société Entomologique de France . 1885 . 1885 . 18 . clxv-clxvi.