Spiniphora Malloch, 1909

Ament, Danilo César & Brown, Brian Victor, 2025, Phoridae (Diptera) mating behaviour: identification of general patterns, exceptions and the use of sexually dimorphic structures based on vast citizen science data, Journal of Natural History 59 (9 - 12), pp. 739-761 : 750

Spiniphora Malloch (total of six photos of four mating events examined: Figure 4G–H )

Based on the few photos examined, Spiniphora has a standard mating position and no special action was identified. Note that Figure 4G shows the well-developed right surstylus of the male in contact with the female terminalia (white arrow).

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Figure 4. Neopleurophora (A), Palpocrates (B), Phlebothrix (C–D), Phora (E–F) and Spiniphora (G–H) mating. A. From Boca Chica, Panama (photo credit: © Kai Squires, licensed under CC BY 4.0 DEED). B. From Yonggokdong, South Korea (photo credit: © onidiras-iNaturalist, licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 DEED). C. From Domenjod, Sainte-Clotilde, Réunion (photo credit: François Rousseu). D. From Sainte-Marie, Réunion (photo credit:François Rousseu).E. From Gunnislake,UK (photo credit:© George Mitchell,all rights reserved).F. From Mendocino County,CA,USA (photo credit:Ken-ichi Ueda).G.From Chusclan,France (photo credit:© RUIZJean Marc, all rights reserved; white arrow, male right surstylus). H. From Quintenas, Rhône-Alpes, France (photo credit:© Quentin Gaillard,licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 DEED).All photos obtained from iNaturalist (inaturalist. org/observations/), ID numbers: A, 98903680; B, 100659903; C, 85441054; D, 123209927; E, 85595448; F, 70078415;G, 62872988;H,40087776.All photos adapted as described in the ‘Materials and methods’ section.