Spiniphora Malloch, 1909

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 Spiniphora Malloch, 1909

This is a relatively small genus with about 20 species from the Palaearctic, Nearctic and Oriental regions. Only S. signata Schmitz, 1935 was previously recorded in Israel ( Disney & Nussbaum, 1990; Lengyel, 2011a), being now known from both the coastal plain and Judean hills. Another species, S. bergenstammi (Mik, 1864) was erroneously indicated for the Israeli fauna by Disney & Nussbaum (1990), being collected in Sidon, Lebanon. However, quite expectedly this Holarctic species is present in Israel as well.