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 Abdomen slender, banded, and with bristles
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| Stephen |
Posted on 13-06-2007 17:06
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 Member Location: West Virginia USA Posts: 1322 Joined: 12.04.05 |
Not sure what to make of this fly. ID help appreciated! Very busy so it was hard to get a good picture of it. Forest, rolling hills, West Virginia USA, 10 June 2007. Not especially small. Stephen attached the following image:  [129.41Kb] --Stephen Stephen Cresswell www.americaninsects.net |
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| Stephen |
Posted on 13-06-2007 17:07
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Member Location: West Virginia USA Posts: 1322 Joined: 12.04.05 |
Cropped to show more detail.
Stephen attached the following image:  [50.44Kb] --Stephen Stephen Cresswell www.americaninsects.net |
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| Stephen |
Posted on 13-06-2007 17:10
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Member Location: West Virginia USA Posts: 1322 Joined: 12.04.05 |
Third image.
Stephen attached the following image:  [79.57Kb] --Stephen Stephen Cresswell www.americaninsects.net |
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| Xespok |
Posted on 13-06-2007 17:28
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 Member Location: Debrecen, Hungary Posts: 5551 Joined: 02.03.05 |
This one seems to be an interesting Tachinid.
Gabor Keresztes Japan Wildlife Gallery Carpathian Basin Wildlife Gallery |
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| Stephen |
Posted on 13-06-2007 19:32
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Member Location: West Virginia USA Posts: 1322 Joined: 12.04.05 |
Gabor, thanks very much! So skinny, I would not have thought of Tachinidae. But after your ID, I found a possible genus: Cylindromyia. I didn't find a match, but I found flies with similar characteristics such as the shape of the calypters. Anyhow there is some information here: http://bugguide.n.../view/9906 Thanks again for your help! --Stephen Stephen Cresswell www.americaninsects.net |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 15-06-2007 11:26
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19267 Joined: 21.07.04 |
a member of the Doleschaliini tribe. Should be rather easy to ID, I guess, not to many species. Doleschaliini have a peculiar distribution: they occur in the neotropics (apparently entering the USA) and in the Oriental region. Theo Zeegers |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 21-02-2010 21:54
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Just refound this thread after doing some work on just this genus  My specimens are neotropical but this one, being from the USA, should be Cordyligaster septentrionalis 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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