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Small heads and strange lives: studying the Acroceridae of New Zealand

Collections technician and PhD student Shaun Thompson has spent several years working with curators Julia Kasper and Phil Sirvid to study one of the most unusual and elusive groups of flies in Aotearoa New Zealand.

He aims to create comprehensive species descriptions and distribution records of the Acroceridae, or “small-headed flies”, of New Zealand. Here he shares what he has learned about these strange flies.

 

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