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Polleniidae

Parasitoids of soil-dwelling invertebrates including earthworms. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7538466/

Gisondi S, Rognes K, Badano D, Pape T, Cerretti P. The world Polleniidae (Diptera, Oestroidea): key to genera and checklist of species. Zookeys. 2020 Sep 29;971:105-155. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.971.51283. PMID: 33061774; PMCID: PMC7538466.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polleniidae The family Polleniidae has been considered a subfamily of Calliphoridae in the past, containing various genera and species. As a result of phylogenetic analysis, the subfamily Polleniinae was elevated to family rank by Cerretti, et al., in 2019.