Phoridae

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 across a surface rather than taking flight. This behaviour is a source of one of their alternate names, scuttle fly. Another vernacular name, coffin fly, refers to Conicera tibialis. About 4,000 species are known in 230 genera. The most well-known species is cosmopolitan Megaselia scalaris. At 0.4 mm in length, the world's smallest fly is the phorid Euryplatea nanaknihali.

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Megaselia is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae.

Apocephalus is a genus of ant-decapitating flies (insects in the family Phoridae). There are at least 300 described species in Apocephalus.

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thumb | right Metopina is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae.

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Aenigmatias is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae.

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Neodohrniphora is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae.

Microselia is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae.

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Phalacrotophora is a genus of scuttle flies (insects in the family Phoridae). There are at least 50 described species in Phalacrotophora. thumb

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Triphleba is a genus of flies belonging to the family Phoridae.

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Beckerina is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae.

Myrmosicarius is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae.

Puliciphora is a genus of scuttle flies (insects in the family Phoridae). There are at least 110 described species in Puliciphora.

Chonocephalus is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae.

Abaristophora is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae.

Kerophora is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae.

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Xanionotum is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae.

Menozziola is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae.

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Melaloncha is a genus of phorid flies (Diptera: Phoridae) commonly referred to as "bee-killing flies". They are found almost exclusively in the Neotropical realm, although there is one record from extreme southern Texas, United States. They are small flies, usually about in length. No true fossils are known, although there are some specimens in Colombian copal, of unknown (but likely relatively recent) age.

Dohrniphora is a genus of scuttle flies (insects in the family Phoridae). There are at least 240 described species in Dohrniphora.

Cataclinusa is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae.

Acontistoptera is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae.

Phymatopterella is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae.

Pseudacteon is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae. There are over 70 described species of Pseudacteon fly. They are also known as ant-decapitating flies due to their parasitic larval stage. An egg is injected by the female fly into the shoulder joint of an ant worker. Soon after, the egg undergoes rapid inflation as it appears to absorb ant hemolymph. This first instar larva migrates into the ant head and consumes the jaw muscle and other tissues, leaving the mandibles hanging and preparing a future exit space. After about two weeks, the ant worker is termed a "zombie" because the fly lar

Rhyncophoromyia is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae.

Borophaga is a genus of phorid flies.

Diocophora is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae.

Physoptera is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae.

Ecitomyia is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae.

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Auxanommatidia is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae.

Diplonevra is a genus of scuttle flies (insects in the family Phoridae). There are at least eight described species in Diplonevra.

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Dacnophora is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae.

Gymnophora is a genus of scuttle flies (insects in the family Phoridae). There are at least 60 described species in Gymnophora.

Pericyclocera is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae.

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Commoptera is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae.

Trophithauma is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae.

Anevrina is a genus of phorid flies circumscribed by the Italian naturalist Paolo Lioy in 1864.

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Syneura is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae.

Trophodeinus is a genus of flies in the family 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 from a colony of Aenictus gracilis and described in 1996 by dipterologist Ronald Henry Disney. The biology of Vestigipoda is still poorly understood, but they are highly derived and specialized for posing as ants and living inside ant colonies. Their eggs closely resemble the eggs of their hosts. Adult females are legless, wingless, and mimic the host larvae. Adult males are not yet described, but exist and are presumably winged. The cuticular

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