Fly - Glutops - BugGuide.Net

wowww! Ken -- thanks for the new fam!

pls look for more aggressively and post pix! =v=

Moved from "Orthorrhapha" (Brachycera excluding Aschiza and Schizophora).

… v belov, 15 April, 2009 - 9:35am

Thanks!

Thanks, v, Joel and Norm! I will be up at this field station for a week-long birding (!) class in June - I'll see if I can find some more of these flies then...

… Ken Schneider, 15 April, 2009 - 9:53am

Pelecorhynchidae, genus Glutops

Pelecorhynchidae, genus Glutops...in reviewing this further, I think it is Glutops

… Norm Woodley, 15 April, 2009 - 8:45am

Moved

Moved from Soldier flies.

… Joel Kits, 20 November, 2008 - 10:30am

Not Stratiomyidae

This fly is not in the family Stratiomyidae. It is possibly in the rare family Pelecorhynchidae, genus Glutops. However, a view of the front of the head would be necessary to confirm this.

… Norm Woodley, 19 November, 2008 - 2:02pm

Thank you!

Unfortunately, I think these are my only images, so perhaps I need to move it back to Diptera or frass... I will check to see if I have any more images on my home computer.

… Ken Schneider, 19 November, 2008 - 2:58pm

Don't frass

It's worth keeping this with Norm's comment, even if it isn't definitively identifiable from these images. Pelecorhynchidae is one of the few lower brachyceran families not represented in Bugguide yet.

… Joel Kits, 20 November, 2008 - 10:32am

OK -

I just checked my stored photos and I don't have any other angles of this fly, unfortunately. I did add a close-up of the head, although it sounds like that won't cinch it... Oh well.

… Ken Schneider, 20 November, 2008 - 9:02pm

Moved

Moved from Flies.

… Joel Kits, 7 November, 2008 - 8:26pm