Phoridae

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title: Phoridae
text: 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 to the wing. 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 i
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description: Family of flies
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoridae
date created: 2005-05-09T03:12:54Z
date modified: 2024-09-11T00:56:32Z
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