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Big-Palp Fly - Trophodeinus - male

Big-Palp Fly - Trophodeinus - Male
Chiricahua Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
August 19, 2015
Collected at UV black light.

Moved
Moved from Scuttle Flies. The enlarged palps in combination with such complicated genitalia structures leads directly to the genus Trophodeinus. In the MND(1) you will find it under the name Bactropalpus. It was synonymized by Brown (1986).(2)

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

For sure: a male specimen of
For sure: a male specimen of the much diverse family of scuttle flies (Phoridae)...

so long,

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