Cedar Creek
Ecosystem Science Reserve
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Insects of Cedar Creek
Order DIPTERA
Family PHORIDAE
(Humpbacked Flies)
Specimens of Humpbacked Flies (226 NA spp) are fairly common in old field
sweeps. Perhaps 15 species have been collected. Tentative generic determinations
include:
Anevrina,
Borophaga,
Diplonevra,
Gymnophora,
Dohrniphora,
Phora,
Triphleba,
and
Megaselia spp. Most
species are suspected to be scavengers as larvae, but some of these grotesque
species are parasitic on scale insects.