Helina

Content sourced from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Helina is a very large genus of flies in the Muscidae family.

Classification:
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Muscidae
- Subfamily: Phaoniinae
- Tribe: Phaoniini
- Genus: Helina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
- Type species: Anthomyia euphemioidea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
- Synonyms: Aricia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830; Enoplopteryx Hendel, 1902; Quadrularia Huckett, 1965; Spilogaster Macquart, 1835; Yetodesia Rondani, 1861

In Denmark, two fungi from the genus Strongwellsea (Strongwellsea selandia and Strongwellsea gefion) infect adult Helina flies.

More information about Helina is available in online species databases.