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Megaselia sp.?
Rui Andrade
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Posted on 10-07-2008 11:45
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I found some coccinnelid pupae and collected them. Some days after I noticed that they had been parasitized by dipterans.
I think they belong to the family Phoridae. What do you think they are?

location: Oporto, Portugal
date: 10/07/2008

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Phalacrotophora
 
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Two publications on Phalacrotophora in the [url=http://www.diptera.info/downloads.php?cat_id=7]DOWNLOADS[/iurl] section. You can try to identify them yourself or you can send them to me. Wink
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I hope you collected these tiny flies. Smile
 
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Phil, thank you very much for the IDSmile. And thank you Paul for the PDFs. I will keep some specimens to send to youWink. Jorge, if you want some I will try to catch some more.
 
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