PERISCELIDIDAE

Ebejer, Martin J. & Nicolosi, Giuseppe, 2022, New records of acalyptrate Diptera from Sicily (Brachycera, Muscomorpha: Asteiidae, Aulacigastridae, Carnidae, Lonchaeidae, Odiniidae, Pallopteridae, Periscelididae, Piophilidae, Sciomyzidae, Ulidiidae), Fragmenta entomologica 54 (1), pp. 101-104 : 103

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.13133/2284-4880/766
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8169218
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A5879C-BC38-FFE6-7AEC-FA24FE97F954
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	PERISCELIDIDAE
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Two relatively recent papers give detailed taxonomic accounts of the subfamily Periscelidinae in the West Palaearctic ( Papp & Withers 2011; Roháček & Andrade 2017). This subfamily is associated with forests where larvae are thought to develop in sap exuding from deciduous trees.