Wharia Brown and Oliver

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

Wharia Brown and Oliver (total of two photos of one mating event examined: Figure 7A,B )

Wharia is a genus known only from a few specimens, and to find records of this genus on iNaturalist was surprising. The only mating photo examined shows a standard mating position.

Figures

Figure 7. Wharia (A–B) and unknown genus 1 (C–D) mating, unknown genus 2 female swarm (E–F). A–B. From Dunedin, Tomahawk Lagoon, New Zealand (photo credit: © Steve Kerr, licensed under CC BY 4.0 DEED). C–D. From Wellington, New Zealand (photo credit: © Michael Berardozzi, licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 DEED). E–F. From Manú Province, Peru (photo credit: © Rich Hoyer, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). All photos obtained from INaturalist (inaturalist.org/observations/), ID numbers: A–B, 37566558, C–D, 200861568, E–F, 203518040. All photos adapted as described in the ‘Materials and methods’ section.