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Thx! Good to have a Phorid expert in these forums.

There are two known species within this genus in Japan:

bifasciata (Walker, 1860) and peregrina (Wiedemann, 1830) .

But this family is not very-well researched in Japan, I think.

There are some more photos on Phoridae of Japan on my old Japan Wildlife gallery.

If you can help me to place any of the images into genera please leave comments there. (Add comment section under the full sized image). Some of the images might also belong to other families.

I do not want to post all these images, because they are not of the best quality. Phorids in my experience are very common, but very difficult to take photos of, because they are small, usually uniformly coloured, dark and move around a lot. Also they tend to sit on shaky substrates like leafs which themselves tend to move in the smallest breeze,. All of these makes focusing very difficult.