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NEW FAMILY Chyromyidae? - Gymnochiromyia

NEW FAMILY Chyromyidae? - Gymnochiromyia
Ames, indoors, Story County, Iowa, USA
April 10, 2007
Size: 2.5 mm
here's one I just caught flying around my light...

a tip for getting closeups of specimens that won't sit still... place the specimen in a vial or under a petri dish with a crystal of paradichlorobenzene (mothballs)... as soon as the specimen rolls over, remove it... at this point it should be paralyzed, thus you can get a more lifelike pose than with a dead specimen... and the effect lasts as long as the insect stays alive (many hours), thus a more useful technique than refrigerating... as far as I can tell, the specimen isn't able to recover

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NEW FAMILY Chyromyidae? - Gymnochiromyia NEW FAMILY Chyromyidae? - Gymnochiromyia NEW FAMILY Chyromyidae? - Gymnochiromyia NEW FAMILY Chyromyidae? - Gymnochiromyia NEW FAMILY Chyromyidae? - Gymnochiromyia NEW FAMILY Chyromyidae? - Gymnochiromyia

neat!
good job on finding this fly

Moved
Moved from Acalyptratae.

Moved
Moved from Chamaemyiidae.

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