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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Stratiomyomorpha » Xylomyidae » Xylomya » Xylomya pallidifemur
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Which fly am I, please? - Xylomya pallidifemur
Copyright © 2007 Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City

Which fly am I, please? - Xylomya pallidifemur
Herring Run Watershed, Baltimore City County, Maryland, USA
May 24, 2007
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Which fly am I, please? - Xylomya pallidifemur Which fly am I, please? - Xylomya pallidifemur
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Contributed by Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City on 24 May, 2007 - 1:28pm
Last updated 23 April, 2009 - 4:40pm

Moved
Moved from Xylomya.
… Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City, 25 September, 2008 - 12:33pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Xylophagus.
… john and jane balaban, 1 August, 2008 - 4:27pm login or register to post comments

Xylophagus perhaps... running
Xylophagus perhaps... running it through the key seems to lead to X. cinctus... hopefully someone else will chime in on this
… Joe, Entomologist (in training), 24 May, 2007 - 2:40pm login or register to post comments

 
Key
You have a species key to Xylophagus? Impressive. That is the right group. Don't have a species key down here in the warming south. And have never found one of these beautiful flies.
… Herschel Raney, 24 May, 2007 - 7:21pm login or register to post comments

 
I posted the key on the genus
I posted the key on the genus info page. It's a bit difficult to use without a good closeup of the head, but by process of elimination I think X. cintus is a likely suspect.
… Joe, Entomologist (in training), 24 May, 2007 - 9:58pm login or register to post comments

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