Female-biased-morphological-divergence
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Hirotophora
Hirotophora is a genus of scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae) established in 2015. The genus was originally monotypic but now contains three species following taxonomic revision: the type species, Hirotophora chilensis sp. nov. from Chile, and two species transferred from Chaetopleurophora (C. dividua and C. flavimarginata). Females exhibit greater structural divergence than males, which show minimal differences in terminalia—an unusual pattern for Phorinae that suggests distinctive but currently unknown life history traits.