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Cheese fly

Piophila casei (Linnaeus, 1758)

Status not recordedinsects

The cheese fly (Piophila casei) is a species in the family Piophilidae, order Diptera.

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Quick facts about the cheese fly

Weight
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Length
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Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the cheese fly live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the cheese fly as introduced in 5 countries.

  1. Canary Islands
  2. Ecuador
  3. Japan
  4. South Africa
  5. United States

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the cheese fly endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the cheese fly classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderDiptera
  5. familyPiophilidae
  6. genusPiophila
  7. SpeciesPiophila casei (Linnaeus, 1758)

Synonyms Musca atrata, Musca casei, Piophila atrata, Piophila melanocera, Piophila meridionalis, Piophila petasionis, Piophila pusilla, Piophila smithii, Piophila viridicollis

Other names and names in other languages (12)
  • Cheese skipperEnglish
  • European cheese flyEnglish
  • Ham skipperEnglish
  • sýrohlodka drobnáCzech
  • Mouche du fromageFrench
  • Mosca caseariaItalian
  • osteflueNorwegian Bokmål
  • KaasvliegDutch
  • osteflugeNorwegian Nynorsk
  • Сырная мухаRussian
  • syrárka drobnáSlovak
  • asticot du fromageFrench

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the cheese fly

Other species in the same genus Piophila.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the cheese fly an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the cheese fly as introduced in 5 countries: Canary Islands, Ecuador, Japan, South Africa and United States, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the cheese fly?

The cheese fly (Piophila casei) belongs to the family Piophilidae in the order Diptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-13. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Cheese fly (Piophila casei). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/cheese-fly

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BibTeX
@misc{cheese_fly_2026,
  title = {Cheese fly (Piophila casei)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/cheese-fly},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-13}
}