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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Xylophagidae » Xylophagus » Subgenus Xylophagus (Xylophagus Subgenus Xylophagus) » Xylophagus cinctus
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X. lugens? - Xylophagus cinctus
Copyright © 2007 Joe, Entomologist (in training)

X. lugens? - Xylophagus cinctus
Ames, Story County, Iowa, USA
April 1, 2007
Size: 10 mm
I would like to nominate myself for Dumbest Entomologist Of The Year Award... I found this guy while sitting on my futon... what a Xylophagid would be doing in my apartment I cannot say... my best guess is that he was attracted to the honey I sprayed on the nearby window and found a way inside...

This is the first specimen of this family I have ever seen... so I put him in a tube and chilled him in the fridge... the photo shoot was going well... then he woke up and climbed my finger and stayed put for a good minute... alas, he flew away... somewhere in my living room is a very cool fly that refuses to fly to the light

the entomology gods giveth, and the entomology gods taketh away

*cries*

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Contributed by Joe, Entomologist (in training) on 1 April, 2007 - 9:41pm
Last updated 2 June, 2014 - 12:22pm

Moved
Moved from Xylophagus lugens.
… v belov, 2 June, 2014 - 12:22pm login or register to post comments

Xylophagidae: Xylophagus probably X. cinctus
Xylophagidae: Xylophagus probably X. cinctus
… Norm Woodley, 2 June, 2014 - 12:17pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Xylophagus.
… Keith Bayless, 4 April, 2007 - 10:16pm login or register to post comments

Closure
OH JOY! I just found it this morning by my fluorescent light (which is weird, it wasn't on at any point last night... truly a whimsical creature
… Joe, Entomologist (in training), 2 April, 2007 - 11:49am login or register to post comments

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