Acrocerinae Zetterstedt, 1837
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Acrocerinae Zetterstedt, 1837 |
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Subfamily Acrocerinae Zetterstedt, 1837
Type genus.
Acrocera Meigen 1803: 266.
Diagnosis.
Small to medium sized, densely pilose to apilose, body rarely arched; antennal flagellum stylate; postpronotal lobes widely separated, never medially contiguous; wing venation highly variable, ranging from complete with cells cu-p, bm br, d, m3 and basal r4+5 present, to highly reduced with few closed cells; humeral crossvein rarely well developed; tibial apical spines absent (rarely present); larvae exclusively parasitoids of araneomorph spiders.
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