For one thing, the males are astonishingly bellicose; the specific epithet litigata reflects the fact — in context it means "aggressive", as in the English word "litigious".

On discarded antlers, the males form complex, highly structured aggregations in which a great deal of territorial competition occurs.

Some individuals defend stable territories, while others wander in search of females that arrive on antlers to feed, mate, and oviposit.

[5] Another adaptation to life on discarded antlers is an astonishing degree of site fidelity: males spend their entire lives competing on the same antler (only leaving to spend the night in nearby vegetation), making it possible to mark flies individually and obtain longitudinal field data on these tiny insects.

[6] This article related to members of the muscomorph flies superfamily Tephritoidea is a stub.