The larva of the species Verticia fasciventris are parasites and develop in the heads of termites.[4][5]
The genus name was also used for
Bacteria (the species Verticia sediminum) in 2015.[6] A renaming to Verticiella was proposed in 2016 when the name was discovered to be a
later homonym.[7]
References
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^Rognes, K. (2011). A review of the monophyly and composition of the Bengaliinae with the description of a new genus and species, and new evidence for the presence of Melanomyinae in the Afrotropical Region (Diptera, Calliphoridae). Zootaxa, 2964(1), 1–60. doi:
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2964.1.1