Pallopteridae, Loew, 1862

Harym, Younes El & Korneyev, Valery, 2023, New additions to the fauna of the superfamily Tephritoidea (Diptera) of Morocco, Zootaxa 5360 (4), pp. 487-514 : 494

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5360.4.2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2A3B95D9-DC5F-408A-8D76-90A42326B2D0
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10164708
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EC4B8786-FFA2-FF8C-FF5C-A157FE93F9A3
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Pallopteridae
status

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Family Pallopteridae View in CoL View at ENA

Similar to the Lonchaeidae , pallopterid larvae live under bark, usually as zoophages or saprophages in association with wood-boring Coleoptera or in shoots and stems of herbaceous plants ( Ferrar 1987; Korneyev 1999). Only one species, Palloptera ustulata (Fallén, 1820) , has been reported from North Africa and Morocco ( Ebejer et al. 2019; Kettani et al. 2022).