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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Scorpionflies, Hangingflies, and Allies (Mecoptera) » Forcepflies (Meropeidae) » Merope » Forcepfly (Merope tuber)
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Forcepfly - Merope tuber - male
Copyright © 2014 Curt Harden

Forcepfly - Merope tuber - Male
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute , Warren County, Virginia, USA
September 2, 2014
Size: 15mm, head to forcep-tip
Found in a pitfall trap that was open from August 19 through September 2nd, 2014.

Another male forcepfly was found two weeks later in a different pitfall trap. Both traps were in rocky forests near streams.
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Contributed by Curt Harden on 6 October, 2014 - 11:13am
Last updated 27 December, 2016 - 6:01pm

Publish
You should publish a short note about that. We could find no published records for Merope tuber being taken in pitfalls.

See paper here.
… Michael Skvarla, 15 October, 2014 - 8:46pm login or register to post comments

 
Pitfalls
For Michael and anyone else who may be interested, just figured I would report here that these are pretty common in our pitfalls. We catch at least ten or so each season.

In September 2016 we caught 98 individuals in a single pitfall in just a two-week period. I started writing a short note about it, but it got put on the backburner and I don't really have plans to do anything with it.
… Curt Harden, 25 September, 2018 - 8:47am login or register to post comments

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