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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Platypezoidea » Scuttle Flies (Phoridae) » Metopininae » Megaselia » Megaselia scalaris
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Fly ID please - Megaselia scalaris
Copyright © 2007 Perry Babin

Fly ID please - Megaselia scalaris
Ascension Parish, Louisiana, USA
Size: ~3mm
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Contributed by Perry Babin on 12 June, 2007 - 11:23pm
Last updated 30 August, 2009 - 10:25pm

Moved
Moved from Scuttle Flies.
… Keith Bayless, 30 August, 2009 - 10:25pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Scuttle Flies.
… Martin Hauser, 16 October, 2007 - 3:39pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… Martin Hauser, 16 October, 2007 - 3:39pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Megaselia scalaris.
… Perry Babin, 13 June, 2007 - 2:20pm login or register to post comments

 
Phoridae.
I'd be pretty confident calling this a phorid at least. Dr. Brian Brown at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is a world authority, and could probably ID the critter in seconds:-) Would be helpful to know under what circumstances it was found, though....
… Eric R. Eaton, 13 June, 2007 - 3:44pm login or register to post comments

 
They were on the yellow jacket nest that I posted in a previous ID request. All of the wasps were dead and the remaining larva were dead or dying.

Thanks again.
… Perry Babin, 13 June, 2007 - 4:16pm login or register to post comments

 
identification
Megaselia scalaris, as Eric suspected
… Brian V. Brown, 30 August, 2009 - 2:05pm login or register to post comments

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