Therevidae: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Therevidae
Genus
Species
Scientific Name: Therevidae

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Therevidae

The Therevidae are a family of flies of the superfamily Asiloidea commonly known as stiletto flies. The family contains about 1,600 described species worldwide, most diverse in arid and semiarid regions with sandy soils. The larvae are predators of insect larvae in soil.

Therevidae in languages:

Bokmål: stilettfluer
Chinese: 劍虻科
Czech: ostrožkovití
Dutch: Viltvliegen
English: Stiletto Flies
German: Luchsfliegen
German: Stilettfliegen
Japanese: ツルギアブ科
Korean: 좀파리매과
Lithuanian: Pentinuotės
Russian: Лжектыри
Swedish: stilettflugor
Ukrainian: Теревіди

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