Pelecorhynchidae

{{Short description|Family of flies}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Pelecorhynchidae

| image = Pelecorhynchus_darwini_f.jpg

| image_caption = Pelecorhynchus darwini (female)

| authority = Enderlein, 1922{{cite journal |last1=Enderlein |first1=G. |title=Ein neues Tabanidensystem |journal=Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin |date=1922 |volume=10 |pages=333–351 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11848849#page/347/mode/1up |access-date=7 July 2022}}

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| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision =

• Pelecorhynchus Macquart, 1850{{cite journal |last1=Macquart |first1=P.J.M. |title=Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. 4e supplement |journal=Mem. Soc. R. Sci. Agric. Arts, Lille |date=1850 |volume=1849 |pages=309–479, pls. 1–14 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53388#page/7/mode/1up |access-date=13 August 2021}}
• Glutops Burgess, 1878{{cite journal |last1=Burgess |first1=E. |title=Two interesting American Diptera, Glutops singularis and Epibates osten-sackenii |journal=Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History |date=1878 |volume=(1876-1878) 19 |pages=320–324, 1 pl |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/130632#page/332/mode/1up |access-date=3 December 2022}}
• Pseudoerinna {{ill|Tokuichi Shiraki|sv|lt=Shiraki}}, 1932{{cite journal |last1=Shiraki |first1=T. |title=Some Diptera in the Japanese Empire, with descriptions of new species |journal=Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Formosa |date=1932 |volume=22 |issue=3 |pages=487–492}}

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Pelecorhynchidae is a small family of flies. All of the genera were originally placed in the family Rhagionidae, and their elevation to family rank has been controversial.{{cite web |url= http://www.mendeley.com/research/pruning-tree-critical-review-classifications-homeodactyla-diptera-brachycera-new-perspectives-alternative-classification/|title= Pruning the tree: a critical review of classifications of the Homeodactyla (Diptera, Brachycera), with new perspectives and an alternative classification|author= B. Stuckenberg|year= 2001|publisher= Studia Dipterologica|access-date= 30 September 2011}} Other phylogenetic analyses have supported Pelecorhynchidae as a distinct clade from Rhagionidae.{{cite journal |title= Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life|author= Wiegmann|year= 2011|journal= Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America|volume= 108|issue= 14|pages= 5690–5|publisher= PNAS|doi= 10.1073/pnas.1012675108|pmid= 21402926|pmc= 3078341|display-authors=etal|doi-access= free|bibcode= 2011PNAS..108.5690W}} The adults of Pelecorhynchus mostly feed on nectar of Leptospermum flowers. Larvae have been collected in the damp margins of swamp areas, where they feed on earthworms.{{cite web |url= http://anic.ento.csiro.au/database/biota_details.aspx?BiotaID=46288|title= Australian National Insect Collection Database: Pelecorhynchidae|publisher= CSIRO Australia|access-date=24 May 2010}}