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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Platypezoidea » Scuttle Flies (Phoridae) » Metopininae » Phalacrotophora » Phalacrotophora epeirae
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Fly from spider egg sac - Phalacrotophora epeirae - female
Copyright © 2011 Charley Eiseman

Fly from spider egg sac - Phalacrotophora epeirae - Female
Pelham, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
July 28, 2011
Size: 1.5 mm
One of several flies to emerge from a spider egg sac I collected on 7/11/2011. The egg sac was something like this:
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Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 17 November, 2011 - 2:31pm
Last updated 18 November, 2011 - 11:35pm

Moved
Moved from Scuttle Flies.
Thanks!
… Charley Eiseman, 18 November, 2011 - 11:35pm login or register to post comments

I guess
they aren't restricted to Mimetus egg sacs.
… John R. Maxwell, 18 November, 2011 - 12:07pm login or register to post comments

 
I knew I'd seen this guy somewhere before!
I sent Brian an email for his opinion, but it sure looks the same to me.

By the way, you've probably figured this out already, but your egg sac image above was moved because of this:

I'll eventually get around to posting the actual egg sac that spiderling came from, and we can compare. I think it was a little browner, with bluish undertones, but pretty similar.
… Charley Eiseman, 18 November, 2011 - 3:01pm login or register to post comments

Hmmm...
... a species of Phalacrotophora? Brian will surely know....

so long,
… Bjoern Rulik, 18 November, 2011 - 2:45am login or register to post comments

 
ID
yep, female Phalacrotophora epeirae.
… Brian V. Brown, 18 November, 2011 - 7:31pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… John F. Carr, 17 November, 2011 - 2:58pm login or register to post comments

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