Acrocerinae
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Ordo: Diptera
Familia: Acroceridae
Name
Acrocerinae Zetterstedt, 1837 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Type genus
Acrocera Meigen 1803: 266.
Diagnosis
Small to medium sized, densely pilose to apilose, body rarely arched; antennal flagellum stylate; postpronotal lobes widely separated, never medially contiguous; wing venation highly variable, ranging from complete with cells cu-p, bm br, d, m3 and basal r4+5 present, to highly reduced with few closed cells; humeral crossvein rarely well developed; tibial apical spines absent (rarely present); larvae exclusively parasitoids of araneomorph spiders.
