The behavior of females of a species of Megaselia is described. Females perch on leaves and occasionally "dance", fluttering their wings while rapidly running on the leaf surface. During this dance, they evert bright white abdominal sacs that apparently constitute part of a visual display to attract males. The evolutionary basis of these behaviors is discussed.

The application of insect and arthropod information to medicolegal death investigations is one of the more exacting applications of entomology. Historically limited to homicide investigations, the integration of full time forensic entomology services to the medical examiner's office in Harris County has opened up the opportunity to apply entomology to a wide variety of manner of death classific...

A new Megaselia species, M.shadeae, with a large, central, pigmented and bubble-like wing spot and a greatly enlarged radial wing vein fork, is described from Zurquí de Moravia, Costa Rica. As part of the Zurquí All Diptera Biodiversity Inventory (ZADBI) project, it represents the first of an incredible number of new phorid species to be described from this one Costa Rican cloud forest site. A ...

Xenogeneic rejection was observed among colonies of three botryllids, Botryllus scalaris, Botryllus primigenus, and Botrylloides simodensis. Allogeneic recognition occurs in each of these species, but the manner of allogeneic rejection differs among them. We studied xenogeneic rejection reactions among these species under the following conditions: colony contact at natural growing edges, colony...

Abstract Namaki-Khameneh and Disney describe nine new species one genus Iranphora sharafkhaneensis gen. n., sp. Megaselia caveonectergata M. distincta fereagarici flavucrurus paluventer polysetosis Phalacrotophora flavidus Phora iranensis n. from Iran. As a result, this study increased the total number of reported phorids genera Iran to 12 78, respectively.

Xenogeneic rejection was observed among colonies of three botryllids, Botryllus scalaris , Botryllus primigenus , and Botrylloides simodensis . Allogeneic recognition occurs in each of these species, but the manner of allogeneic rejection differs among them. We studied xenogeneic rejection reactions among these species under the following conditions: colony contact at natural growing edges, col...

BACKGROUND Presented are continued results from the BioSCAN Project, an urban biodiversity study sampling primarily from private backyards in Los Angeles, California (USA). Presented are continued results from the BioSCAN Project, an urban biodiversity study sampling primarily from private backyards in Los Angeles, California (USA). NEW INFORMATION Twelve new species of Megaselia (Diptera: Ph...

INTRODUCTION The transmission of harmful pathogens by arthropods is an increasing health concern. More concretely, flies are known to be able to transmit the infectious agent mechanically. OBJECTIVE The present work shows a case report occurred from foodservice establishments where were isolated and identified, at the first time, Megaselia spp. in the food preparation place. Furthermore, micr...

Se registra por primera vez en Venezuela la presencia del género Megaselia sp (Rondani, 1856) (Diptera: Phoridae) sobre frutos descomposición de hemiparásita Phthirusa pyrifolia (Kunth) Eichler (Loranthaceae) conocida popularmente como guatepajarito, parásita colectada ciudad Puerto Ordaz, ubicado el municipio Caroní, estado Bolívar, (8º18'55''LN; 62º42'53''LO) muy cerca unión río al Orinoco. I...