@inbook {23553,
	title = {Order Diptera, families Milichiidae and Carnidae},
	booktitle = {Arthropod fauna of the UAE},
	volume = {6},
	year = {2017},
	pages = {621-635},
	keywords = {Carnidae, key, Milichiidae, new species, photos, United Arab Emirates},
	author = {Deeming, J. C.}
}
@article {23226,
	title = {Ceropegia sandersonii mimics attacked honeybees to attract kleptoparasitic flies for pollination},
	journal = {Current Biology},
	volume = {26},
	year = {2016},
	month = {2016/10/24},
	pages = {1-7},
	abstract = {<p>Four to six percent of plants, distributed over different angiosperm families, entice pollinators by deception [1]. In these systems, chemical mimicry is often used as an efficient way to exploit the olfactory preferences of animals for the purpose of attracting them as pollinators [2,3]. Here, we report a very specific type of chemical mimicry of a food source. Ceropegia sandersonii (Apocynaceae), a deceptive South African plant with pitfall flowers, mimics attacked honeybees. We identified kleptoparasitic Desmometopa flies (Milichiidae) as the main pollinators of C. sandersonii. These flies are well known to feed on honeybees that are eaten by spiders, which we thus predicted as the model chemically mimicked by the plant. Indeed, we found that the floral scent of C. sandersonii is comparable to volatiles released from honeybees when under simulated attack. Moreover, many of these shared compounds elicited physiological responses in antennae of pollinating Desmometopa flies. A mixture of four compounds\&mdash;geraniol, 2-heptanone, 2-nonanol, and (E)-2-octen-1-yl acetate\&mdash;was highly attractive to the flies. We conclude that C. sandersonii is specialized on kleptoparasitic fly pollinators by deploying volatiles linked to the flies\&rsquo; food source, i.e., attacked and/or freshly killed honeybees. The blend of compounds emitted by C. sandersonii is unusual among flowering plants and lures kleptoparasitic flies into the trap flowers. This study describes a new example of how a plant can achieve pollination through chemical mimicry of the food sources of adult carnivorous animals.</p>
},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.085},
	author = {A Heiduk and Irina Brake and Tschirnhaus, M. von and G{\"o}hl, M. and J{\"u}rgens, A. and Johnson, S. D. and Meve, U. and D{\"o}tterl, S.}
}
@inbook {21830,
	title = {21. Superfamily Carnoidea},
	booktitle = {The Diptera of the Seychelles islands},
	year = {2009},
	note = {ib},
	pages = {335-344},
	publisher = {Pensoft},
	organization = {Pensoft},
	address = {Sofia-Moscow},
	keywords = {Desmometopa inauratum, Desmometopa m-nigrum, Desmometopa microps, Enigmilichia dimorphica, key to species, Leptometopa nilssoni, Madiza albipennis, Milichia pubescens, Milichia suberba, Milichiella lacteipennis, Milichiella melaleuca, Milichiella solitaria, Milichiella tristis, Milichiidae, Neophyllomyza approximatonervis, Seychelles},
	author = {J Gerlach},
	editor = {J Gerlach}
}
@article {14881,
	title = {Milichiidae of the Lake Kerkini region in Greece},
	number = {19 January 2010},
	year = {2010},
	keywords = {Desmometopa discipalpis, Desmometopa microps, Desmometopa sordida, Enigmilichia, Greece, Leptometopa latipes, Leptometopa niveipennis, Leptometopa rufifrons, Madiza, Madiza glabra, Milichia ludens, Milichia speciosa, Milichiella argyrogaster, Milichiella iberica, Milichiella lacteipennis, Milichiidae, Neophyllomyza acyglossa, Paramyia hungarica, Phyllomyza longipalpis, Phyllomyza securicornis, Phyllomyza sp. Sultanitsa},
	url = {http://milichiidae.info/node/12233},
	author = {Irina Brake}
}
@article {6773,
	title = {New records of some filth flies species (Diptera: Milichiidae) in Southwest Saudi Arabia},
	journal = {Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences},
	volume = {14},
	year = {2007},
	pages = {263-270},
	abstract = {<p>A Malaise trap was used during different time periods between 2002 and 2006, in the Asir province of Saudi Arabia at different localities. Nine known species of Milichiidae (some of them of medical importance) have been identified. These are: Desmometopa m-nigrum (Zetterstedt, 1848); D. varipalpis Malloch 1927; D. singaporensis Kertesz 1899; Leptometopa rufifrons Becker 1903; L. latipes (Meigen 1830); L. nilssoni Sabrosky, 1987; Milichia pubescens Becker 1907; Milichiella lacteipennis (Loew 1866); Enigmilichia dimorphica Deeming, 1981, from South-Western Saudi Arabia, the last seven species of the above are recorded for the first time. Biological information and distribution of these species are included. The fauna of Milichiidae found in this study is much more of Afrotropical than Palaearctic origin.</p>
},
	author = {Dawah, H. A. and Abdullah, M. A.}
}
