Puliciphora Dahl, 1897

Mostovski, Mike B., 2004, New records of scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae) from South Africa, with description of a new species and hitherto unknown males, African Invertebrates 45, pp. 125-125 : 135

Puliciphora Dahl, 1897

More than 70 species are known in this cosmopolitan genus. However, very few records were from South Africa. P. jeanssoni was described from Natal in a separate genus Cryptopteromyia ( Trägårdh 1910) , which was soon afterwards synonymised by Brues (1915) with Puliciphora . P. stuckenbergi was described from a unique specimen from around Stellenbosch (Disney 1988), and P. rufipes and P. borinquenensis were reported from Western Cape and Natal respectively (Beyer 1960; Disney 1988). Beside the species listed below, I have males of several other species, which cannot be identified confidently without association with their females.