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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Window Flies (Scenopinidae) » Caenotus
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Dance fly - Caenotus - male
Copyright © 2015 Even Dankowicz

Dance fly - Caenotus - Male
Taos County, New Mexico, USA
June 10, 2015
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Contributed by Even Dankowicz on 26 September, 2015 - 9:07pm
Last updated 28 October, 2015 - 4:10am

Moved
Moved from Window Flies.
… John F. Carr, 28 October, 2015 - 4:07am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… John F. Carr, 27 October, 2015 - 7:48pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Myxosargus.
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Moved
Moved from Myxosargus.
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Moved
Moved from Flies.
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Scenopinidae?
I wonder if this is one of the ex-Bombyliidae now placed in Scenopinidae. The Emidoidea with long cell cup have R4+5 unbranched or the anal lobe of the wing reduced.
… John F. Carr, 27 September, 2015 - 8:45am login or register to post comments

 
Might be an Empididae... but
Might be an Empididae... but not sure at all!
… Martin Hauser, 26 October, 2015 - 9:52am login or register to post comments

 
Caenotus
Do you have any Caenotus to compare to? It's not inornatus, which has 3 branches of M reaching wing margin instead of 2 here, and Hall's (1973) big book of bee flies describes hospes as having pale posterior veins.
… John F. Carr, 27 October, 2015 - 7:47pm login or register to post comments

 
Shaun Winterton thinks: "Look
Shaun Winterton thinks: "Looks like Caenotus minutus"
… Martin Hauser, 27 October, 2015 - 11:25pm login or register to post comments

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