Cheese fly

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(Zool.) a black dipterous insect (Piophila casei) of which the larvæ or maggots, called skippers or hoppers, live in cheese.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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They belonged to 16 families: Calliphoridae, Muscidae, Fanniidae, Anthomyidae, Scatophagidae, Sarcophagidae, Syrphidae, Piophilidae, Ulidiidae, Phoridae, Sphaeroceridae, Empididae, Chloropidae, Sciaridae, Psycodidae and Mycetophilidae.
Preliminary study of necrophagous Diptera associated with boar corpse (Sus scrofa) in a semi-arid environment in eastern Algeria: Implications in forensic entomology
The last insects to arrive at the carcass were cheese flies (Piophilidae).
Establishment of postmortem interval using insect succession
McAlpine (1981: 53) also reported similar instances in Amiota Loew (Drosophilidae), Dasiops Rondani (Lonchaeidae), and some Piophilidae. If these flies lack an intromittent organ, how is sperm transferred during copulation?
Revision of Afrotropical Pachycerina Macquart (Diptera: Lauxaniidae)
1 Diptera Calliphoridae Lucilia coeruleiviridis 1 Diptera Piophilidae Piophila casei 2 Diptera Sepsidae Sepsis spp.
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