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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Platypezoidea » Scuttle Flies (Phoridae) » Metopininae » Puliciphora
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Diptera 1 (July 2010) - Puliciphora - female
Copyright © 2011 Mike Ferro

Diptera 1 (July 2010) - Puliciphora - Female
Feliciana Preserve, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA
July 18, 2010
Collected in pitfall trap (7B).
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Contributed by Mike Ferro on 10 February, 2011 - 12:53am
Last updated 12 March, 2011 - 10:31am

Moved
Moved from Chonocephalus.
… John F. Carr, 12 March, 2011 - 10:30am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Charley Eiseman, 10 February, 2011 - 12:11pm login or register to post comments

Chonocephalus sp. female (Pho
Chonocephalus sp. female (Phoridae)
http://www.diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=27389
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2002f/z00060f.pdf
… Victor Kolyada, 10 February, 2011 - 11:28am login or register to post comments

 
not Chonocephalus
This is a female Puliciphora, not a Chonocephalus.
I have photos of many phorid genera on my website:

http://www.phorid.net/diptera/lower_cyclorrhapha/phoridae/phoridae_index.htm
… Brian V. Brown, 12 March, 2011 - 9:20am login or register to post comments

Diptera 1
Looks like a wingless Phoridae. Brian Brown might know it as well as Diptera 2
… JBurger, 10 February, 2011 - 8:58am login or register to post comments

I can't wait
to see what this is! Wonderful shot. How did you achieve that great looking calibration bar?
… Diane Young, 10 February, 2011 - 8:54am login or register to post comments

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