Learn about freeloader flies, which dare share the dinner 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. For a comprehensive catalog of Milichiidae see the Diptera portal.
New additions to this website:
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- 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)
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Classification: Milichia; Milichia patrizii
