A review of the family Ulidiidae in Egypt is given. Twelve species assigned to six genera, two tribes and two subfamilies are confirmed to occur in Egypt, namely Ceroxys urticae (Linnaeus), Herina paludum (Fallén), H. strigulosa Walker, Melieria nigritarsis Becker, M. omissa (Meigen) [subfamily Otitinae, tribe Otitini], Physiphora alceae Preyssler, P. elbae Steyskal, P. flavipes (Karsch), P. smaragdina Loew, Timia xanthaspis (Loew), Ulidia facialis Hendel and U. wadicola Steyskal [subfamily Ulidiinae, tribe Ulidiini]. An identification key for all taxa, in addition to diagnoses, ecological comments, illustrations of head, wings and genitalia, and photographs of habitus and genitalia are provided for the species.