Triphleba Rondani, 1856

Mostovski, Mike B., 2016, A review of scuttle fly genera of Israel (Diptera: Phoridae), with new records and an identification key, Zootaxa 4137 (1), pp. 61-72 : 70

Genus Triphleba Rondani, 1856

So far, only two ‘endemic’ species of this speciose genus have been recorded in Israel, i.e. T. circumflexa Schmitz, 1932 and T. extrema Schmitz, 1932 ( Disney & Nussbaum, 1990; Lengyel, 2011a). The former was described from female, whereas the latter from male only ( Schmitz, 1932). T. extrema is quite distinct in having greatly enlarged epandrial lobes and occurs on both Judean hills and the coastal plain.