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Trichopoda subdivisa
Photo#155931
Copyright © 2007
Joyce Gross
feather-legged fly -
Trichopoda subdivisa
San Joaquin Delta College, San Joaquin County, California, USA
November 6, 2007
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Contributed by
Joyce Gross
on 9 November, 2007 - 1:36am
Last updated 15 December, 2008 - 10:57pm
Moved
Moved from
Feather-legged Flies
. Matches description on page 692 of National Audubon Society Field Guide to Insects and Spiders. Also, it is an exact match of the image on plate 485 of the same Guide.
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Ted Kropiewnicki
, 15 December, 2008 - 10:57pm
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This source should be used wi
This source should be used with caution. It contains several errors.
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Arturo Santos
, 23 December, 2019 - 11:53am
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Species ID?
According to Gary J. Steck
here
Trichopoda subdivisa
is only known from California. It would be nice to know if this and a couple of others belong to this species.
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Beatriz Moisset
, 15 December, 2007 - 12:23pm
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other Trichopoda
The three
Trichopoda
species at the UC Berkeley museum are
pennipes
,
lanipes
, and
plumipes
.
T. lanipes
is very large and dark (not what I photographed). The other two species have lots of variation and it seems my fly could be either one of them, but I don't know enough about these flies to know what the defining characters are to bring them to species ID.
T. subdivisa
is not in the collection, but that doesn't mean it doesn't occur in California.
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Joyce Gross
, 21 December, 2007 - 3:59pm
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Not T. pennipes nor plumipes
It doesn't have the orange abdomen of
T. pennipes
nor the black one with pairs of rectangular yellow spots of
plumipes
, that is why I was hoping for something else. I guess that we still need the help of somebody that really knows this.
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Beatriz Moisset
, 21 December, 2007 - 4:34pm
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actually
some of the
T. plumipes
specimens at the museum had exactly the same abdominal pattern as the fly in my photos. I neglected to record who determined the species for those specimens, or when. It's possible the identification is not correct.
I noticed in a couple of Gary Steck's comments he refers to
T. plumipes
as an eastern US species. All of the specimens labeled
T. plumipes
in the Essig collection are from California.
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Joyce Gross
, 21 December, 2007 - 5:38pm
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Aha!
Maybe we'll solve the mystery some day.
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Beatriz Moisset
, 21 December, 2007 - 6:17pm
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Joyce,
your photos are just wonderful!
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Hartmut Wisch
, 9 November, 2007 - 1:18pm
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thanks Hartmut
I felt lucky to find one of these, and especially lucky to have it hold still through numerous photos.
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Joyce Gross
, 9 November, 2007 - 8:06pm
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