CARNIDAE

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 : 102

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.13133/2284-4880/766
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8169200
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A5879C-BC3B-FFE5-794B-FDC4FA00FC94
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	CARNIDAE
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This family was very poorly known from the whole of Italy until quite recently. The checklist ( Canzoneri et al. 1995) lists only one species of Meoneura Rondani, 1856 . The paper by Stuke & Barták (2019) adds more species and the new record from Sicily brings the total number of the known Italian species of Meoneura to 13. A few more species can be expected from Sicily. The biology of this family includes larvae developing as ectoparasites of birds, development in dung and in compost.