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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Mydas Flies (Mydidae) » Mydinae » Phyllomydas » Phyllomydas scitulus
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flies - Mydidae? - Phyllomydas scitulus - male - female
Copyright © 2017 Sue Carnahan

flies - Mydidae? - Phyllomydas scitulus - Male Female
Salero Ranch, E of Tubac, 4300 ft elev, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
June 8, 2017
Size: 15 mm approx
These flies were hooked up in a patch of asparagus. Mydas or Stratiomydas sp.?
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Contributed by Sue Carnahan on 9 June, 2017 - 4:58pm
Last updated 11 June, 2017 - 4:42am

Moved to Phyllomydas scitulus
Moved from Mydas Flies.

Great find...and a new species for BugGuide!! This is actually one of the western species of Phyllomydas, with the male's very elongate and basally swollen clubs unique among mydids north of Mexico.

The female is even more glowing red than Stratiomydus lividus. And these lack the beige lateral thoracic vittae of Stratiomydas.
… Aaron Schusteff, 11 June, 2017 - 4:42am login or register to post comments

 
Phyllomydas scitulus
Cool - thank you!
… Sue Carnahan, 11 June, 2017 - 7:15am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… v belov, 9 June, 2017 - 5:28pm login or register to post comments

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