Family Chamaemyiidae


Bodenheimer (Animal Life in Palestine, 1935) has this to say:
Leucopis griseola and its gongeners develop predaciously on aphids and coccids.

From Wikipedia:
Chamaemyiidae is a small family of acalyptrate flies with less than 200 species described worldwide. The larvae of these small flies are active and predatory and are often used for biological control of aphids, scale insects and similar pests. Chamaemyiid fossils are poorly represented in amber deposits but a few examples are known from the Eocene epoch onwards.
Very small flies, greyish or yellowish grey, heavily dusted, with complete wing venation.


Subfamily: Chamaemyiinae
Tribe: Leucopini
Species Reference source Collection
Leucopis argentata Heeger, 1848 Bodenheimer, 1937
Leucopis griseola (Fallén, 1823) Bodenheimer, 1937 Bet Dagan
Leucopis palumbi Rondani, 1872 Bodenheimer, 1937 Bet Dagan
Leucopis puncticornis Meigen, 1830 Bet Dagan