Milichiidae online

Learn about freeloader flies, which dare share the diner of spiders, mantids and other predatory insects much larger than themselves.

Read a short introduction about the family Milichiidae (Diptera, Schizophora) or visit the species pages with information about and pictures of common, beautiful and/or important species.

As part of the EDIT project, this website includes an ongoing revision of the genus Milichiella, as an example for a web revision. For more information on Diptera see The *new* Diptera Site.

New additions to this website:

• Glossary for morphological terms and character transformation within the Chloropidae family group (July 2008)
• Species pages for European species (June 2008)
• Genus description of Milichiella (March 2008)
• Species holdings of several museums (March 2008)

Navigation of the Classification: A click on a term in the 'Classification' menu will open the child taxa and the species panel for this term. You can also click on 'Taxonomy' above the search field, enter a term and search.