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Another Canadian Tiny Fly
Tony T
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Posted on 29-04-2007 18:27
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23 April 2007, New Brunswick, Canada. Length: 2.25mm
Really hoping for some decent-sized flies, but only small stuff turning up in my Malaise trapSad
Family? Genus?
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Chloropidae.
 
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... and genus Elachiptera, I think.
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Definitely Elachiptera. it looks quite like the Palearctic E. tuberculifera (Corti).
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Thanks Jorge, Nikita, and Kahis. You folks are a fantastic resource. Stone et al (1965) "Catalog of NA Diptera" list only costata, nigripes, vittata as potentially from my area. I suspect more species have been found here since 1965.
 
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