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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Platypezoidea » Scuttle Flies (Phoridae) » Metopininae » Trophodeinus
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Big-Palp Fly - Trophodeinus - male
Copyright © 2017 Mike Ferro

Big-Palp Fly - Trophodeinus - Male
Chiricahua Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
August 19, 2015
Collected at UV black light.
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Contributed by Mike Ferro on 30 August, 2017 - 10:57am
Last updated 7 September, 2017 - 3:55am

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)
… Bjoern Rulik, 7 September, 2017 - 3:54am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Bjoern Rulik, 31 August, 2017 - 11:05am login or register to post comments

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

so long,
… Bjoern Rulik, 31 August, 2017 - 11:02am login or register to post comments

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