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Vestigipoda

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...

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Vestigipoda intermedia

speciesVestigipoda intermedia

Vestigipoda maschwitzi

speciesVestigipoda maschwitzi

Vestigipoda myrmolarvoidea

speciesVestigipoda myrmolarvoidea

Vestigipoda breviseta

speciesVestigipoda breviseta

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1399099.