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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Tephritoidea » Pyrgotidae » Pyrgotella » Pyrgotella chagnoni
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Fly - Pyrgotella chagnoni - male
Copyright © 2007 Ilona L.

Fly - Pyrgotella chagnoni - Male
Cross Plains, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
May 29, 2007
One of the stranger insects I've seen -- it looks like something that Maurice Sendak would draw for one of his books. Could it be a Scor*pion Fly nymph?
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Contributed by Ilona L. on 31 May, 2007 - 2:21am
Last updated 13 December, 2010 - 10:10pm

Pyrgotella
Wow! I saw it in collections, but it is really incredible alive!
… Valery A. Korneyev, 23 March, 2008 - 6:54am login or register to post comments

Looks kinda like...
Pyrgotella chagnoni

See http://www.cedarcreek.umn.edu/insects/album/029060002ap.html

Not familiar enough to say for sure, though.
… Jeff Gruber, 31 May, 2007 - 10:34am login or register to post comments

Pyrgotidae... I'm not familia
Pyrgotidae... I'm not familiar with this genus though.
… Joe, Entomologist (in training), 31 May, 2007 - 9:39am login or register to post comments

Adult
Well remember that immature insects aren't winged. A larval scorpionfly would look kind of caterpillary.

This is a wonderful photo of a very unusual Diptera, I would say. (There appears to be a haltere visible above the left middle femur.) I look forward to someone revealing its identity!
… Stephen_WV, 31 May, 2007 - 4:33am login or register to post comments

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