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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Oestroidea » Parasitic Flies (Tachinidae) » Tachininae » Myiophasiini » Gnadochaeta » Gnadochaeta nigrifrons
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fly - Gnadochaeta nigrifrons
Copyright © 2015 Ilona L.

fly - Gnadochaeta nigrifrons
Cross Plains, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
August 15, 2015
Size: ~8mm

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Contributed by Ilona L. on 1 October, 2015 - 6:23pm
Last updated 12 October, 2018 - 5:48pm

Moved
Moved from Gnadochaeta.
… John F. Carr, 12 October, 2018 - 5:48pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Tachinidae.
… John F. Carr, 29 November, 2015 - 9:48pm login or register to post comments

Compare Gnadochaeta
Compare Gnadochaeta.
… John F. Carr, 16 November, 2015 - 8:26pm login or register to post comments

 
fly
That really looks close. And some of the other posted photos of Gnadochaeta were taken only a few miles from here -- same time of year but two years earlier.
… Ilona L., 16 November, 2015 - 9:43pm login or register to post comments

There they are
I get it. It isn't missing vibrissae. They are high up on a narrow face, like in Microphthalma.
… John F. Carr, 23 October, 2015 - 12:40pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… John F. Carr, 17 October, 2015 - 6:38pm login or register to post comments

Here's another
Photo 480396 looks the same.
… John F. Carr, 17 October, 2015 - 6:37pm login or register to post comments

Tachinidae?
I think this is an odd Tachinidae. There is a large, black Tachinidae with no vibrissae, and it's in a tribe (Palpostomatini) with some not-very-bristly, big-eyed species, but it doesn't quite look like this.

Edit: Some Phasiinae are similar, but without the projecting face.
… John F. Carr, 1 October, 2015 - 8:31pm login or register to post comments

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