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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Platypezoidea » Scuttle Flies (Phoridae) » Metopininae » Puliciphora » Puliciphora borinquenensis
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Wingless Scuttle Fly - Puliciphora borinquenensis - female
Copyright © 2011 Edward L. Ruden

Wingless Scuttle Fly - Puliciphora borinquenensis - Female
Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
July 29, 1977
Size: 1.2 mm body
Download high resolution image here.

I captured this individual with many others in 1977 in a trap consisting of a jar with a piece of fish flesh left to rot inside and buried up to its rim in a wooded area. There were hundreds in the jar after a few days. I preserved a few dozen in a vial of 90% isopropanol. The subject specimen is desiccated for imaging. I stabilized it with HMDS(1) to prevent shriveling after removal from the vial.

This image is a CombineZP processed stack of 134 images with a 5.6 micron step taken with a Nikon CFI60 10X 0.25NA microscope objective + Nikon 200mm F4 telephoto lens + Nikon D300 camera (magnification 10X; technique described here).

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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 6 March, 2011 - 7:03pm
Last updated 17 February, 2017 - 7:16am

Moved
Moved from Puliciphora.
… v belov, 4 April, 2011 - 11:20pm login or register to post comments

Puliciphora borinquenensis
Brian Brown has identified this species as Puliciphora borinquenensis Wheeler, "a common and widespread scavanger", after inspecting a sample I mailed to him. I will request a new guide page for it.
… Edward L. Ruden, 4 April, 2011 - 10:11pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Edward L. Ruden, 7 March, 2011 - 10:22pm login or register to post comments

See Puliciphora
If I try the key in Manual of Nearctic Diptera I get Puliciphora, but I'm not confident. I suggest asking Brian Brown.
… John F. Carr, 6 March, 2011 - 7:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Brian Brown
I sent him a link and ID request upon submission.
… Edward L. Ruden, 6 March, 2011 - 7:56pm login or register to post comments

 
Follow-up
Brian has confirmed that it is Puliciphora, and has offered to ID it to species if I send it to him (which I will). This will be the first BG species page under the genus if successful.
… Edward L. Ruden, 7 March, 2011 - 10:16pm login or register to post comments

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