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Batman Returns - Pyrgota undata

Batman Returns - Pyrgota undata
Sand Springs, Osage County, Oklahoma, USA
May 5, 2007
Size: 1" (1 1/2" wing span)
Another one of these weird lookers. Came to porch light at night. Wasp of some sort ? Please help with ID.

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The link to
Pyrgota undata - Waved Light Fly is here

Pyrogotidae
This is a rather neat fly, not commonly collected. They are parasitoids of beetle larvae, and for some reason I recall that they are supposed to be nocturnal, though your pictures portray them otherwise.

Got me again
Am I supposed to ask if you're flashing the bat signal? Hey, you ain't in Gotham City.

Well, it's a fly, but I don't know which. The small antennae indicate a fly, as do two (not four) wings. Don't know about you, but I find it hard to count wings. But see those little whitish pads by the wings in your second and third photos? Those indicate the absence of wings and I can count them just fine. (Took me better than a year to learn this trick.)

 
That is cool!
That is cool!

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