Family Piophilidae

Currently, there are five genera and six species recorded from North Africa (Saifi et al. 2016; El-Hawagry 2017; Taleb et al. 2019); three of them occur in Morocco (Kettani et al. 2022). All species belong to the subfamily Piophilinae, which is represented by the tribes Mycetaulini and Piophilini. The Mycetaulini have larvae associated with fungi and are represented by the species Mycetaulus hispanicus Duda, 1927, while the Piophilini are represented by four species, two of the genus Piophila Fallén, including Piophila casei (Linnaeus, 1758), a cosmopolitan associated with corpses, usually in the final stages of decomposition in the wild or as a common pest of proteinaceous animal products (also known as “cheese skipper”) (Muller 2021). The species Piophila megastigmata McAlpine 1978 has been recorded from Spain and Algeria and is associated with impala carcasses (Martín-Vega et al. 2011; Saifi et al. 2016). Prochyliza nigrimana (Meigen, 1826) is a non-Afrotropical sarcosaprophagous species that also develops on carrion or in food (Muller 2021).