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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Platypezoidea » Scuttle Flies (Phoridae)
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Habitat, dead Papaipema
Copyright © 2017 MJ Hatfield

Habitat, dead Papaipema
road ditch near Winona, Winona County, Minnesota, USA
July 10, 2016
July 9, 2016: looking for Papaipema larvae in the stems of Angelica, Angelica atropurpurea. Found several.
This one was dead with lots of other species larvae, flies

Probably can't tell if larvae & pupae go with these adults
July 22, 2016: flies began emerging

This is the right hand one.

This is the left hand one whose wings weren't completely inflated.

pupa

Also 2 of these emerged.

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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 20 January, 2017 - 9:52am
Last updated 26 January, 2017 - 12:42pm

The big round hole near the head
looks like an exit hole of a wasp, which would mean the phorids are scavenging a carcass rather than being the cause of death. I found a sort of similar situation, here.
… Charley Eiseman, 22 January, 2017 - 10:18pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks.
I figured they were scavenging a dead carcass but completely missed the connection between the hole and a previous emergence. I just thought of the hole as a viewing port to see the fly larvae. Oh my.
… MJ Hatfield, 23 January, 2017 - 8:05am login or register to post comments

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