Piophilidae, Macquart, 1835

Harym, Younes El & Korneyev, Valery, 2023, New additions to the fauna of the superfamily Tephritoidea (Diptera) of Morocco, Zootaxa 5360 (4), pp. 487-514 : 495

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).