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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Oestroidea » Parasitic Flies (Tachinidae) » Tachininae » Polideini » Hystricia » Hystricia abrupta
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Bee fly - Hystricia abrupta
Copyright © 2015 Georgette deFriesse

Bee fly - Hystricia abrupta
Hawley, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
August 23, 2015
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Contributed by Georgette deFriesse on 23 August, 2015 - 5:32pm
Last updated 26 August, 2015 - 6:44am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 26 August, 2015 - 6:44am login or register to post comments

tachnid fly
the spiky bristles give it away
perhaps this one or something in the neighborhood
… Steve Scholnick, 23 August, 2015 - 5:41pm login or register to post comments

 
Different genus
Probably Hystricia abrupta. The fly you linked has extremely long palps and the bristles on the abdomen are in neat lines along the edges of tergites.
… John F. Carr, 25 August, 2015 - 8:42pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks for the correction
that's why I added the "perhaps" and "something in the neighborhood" - just a pointer in the direction of tachnids. I should have looked harder for a better example to thumb
… Steve Scholnick, 25 August, 2015 - 8:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you!
That's it exactly.
… Georgette deFriesse, 23 August, 2015 - 5:51pm login or register to post comments

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