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    The Phoridae are a family of small, hump-backed flies resembling fruit flies. Phorid flies can often be identified by their escape habit of running rapidly...
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    Megaselia scalaris (category Phoridae)
    fly Megaselia scalaris is a member of the order Diptera and the family Phoridae, and it is widely distributed in warm regions of the world. The family...
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  • Vestigipoda (category Phoridae)
    Vestigipoda is a genus of myrmecophilous flies in the family Phoridae which live in the nests of army ants. The genus was discovered in Malaysia in 1994...
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    visit fungus infected male flowers. The larvae of Megaselia scalaris (Phoridae) are almost omnivorous and consume such substances as paint and shoe polish...
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    swelling, and slurred speech, can be fatal if not treated. Phorid flies, or Phoridae, are a large family of small, hump-backed flies somewhat smaller than vinegar...
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    in the former Quercy province of France, the remains of 55 ancient fly (Phoridae) pupae were found preserved with Xenomorphia wasps inside of them, recording...
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    "Behavior and Host Location Cues of Apocephalus paraponerae (Diptera: Phoridae), a Parasitoid of the Giant Tropical Ant, Paraponera clavata (Hymenoptera:...
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  • Phalacrotophora epeirae (category Phoridae)
    Phalacrotophora epeirae is a species of scuttle flies (insects in the family Phoridae). Brues, C.T. (1902). "Notes on the larvae of some Texan Diptera". Psyche:...
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    glaucopterus (Linnaeus, 1758)". www.gbif.org. Liston, Andrew (1979). "On Phoridae (Diptera) from Sawfly Cocoons (Hym Symphyta)". The Entomologist's Record...
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  • Pseudacteon formicarum (category Phoridae)
    formicarum is a kind of parasitic species of flies from the family of Phoridae of the subfamily Metopininae. Pseudacteon formicarum is found in Europe...
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