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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Orthorrhapha" (Brachycera excluding Aschiza and Schizophora) » Asiloidea » Mydas Flies (Mydidae) » Mydas » Mydas chrysostomus
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Fly - Mydas chrysostomus - female
Copyright © 2008 Charles Schurch Lewallen

Fly - Mydas chrysostomus - Female
Henryetta, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, USA
July 28, 2008
A beautiful fly, but what kind?
Mydas fly
This fly has been identified as Mydas chrysostomus O.S. by Dr. Boris C. Kondratieff of Colorado St. University
Rare in Oklahoma but He has collected it here.
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Contributed by Charles Schurch Lewallen on 28 July, 2008 - 10:43am
Last updated 31 July, 2008 - 7:07pm

the BDWD
nomenclator lists Mydas chrysostoma as a junior synonym of Mydas fulvifrons. also, there is no Mydas chrysostoma or chrysostomus in the Nomina Nearctica. why is that?
… Keith Bayless, 19 February, 2009 - 7:30pm login or register to post comments

 
Mydas chrysostomus
Daecke (1906: 347 http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2563038) synonymised Mydas chrysostomus Osten-Sacken, 1874 with Mydas fulvifrons Illiger, 1801, but this action was not taken into account when Wilcox et al. 1990 revised the New World Mydas species. I have seen the holotype of M. fulvifrons and the photographed specimen looks certainly much like it. The holotype of M. chrysostomus is at Harvard, but hasn't been photographed by the MCZ team. Wilcox et al. 1990 state that all abdominal tergites of M. chrysostomus are black and that M. fulvifrons has the orange pattern seen in this image.
… Torsten Dikow, 15 April, 2009 - 11:28am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Mydas Flies.
… john and jane balaban, 31 July, 2008 - 6:30pm login or register to post comments

 
Mydas
Thanks J&J.
… Charles Schurch Lewallen, 31 July, 2008 - 7:07pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… Martin Hauser, 28 July, 2008 - 11:20am login or register to post comments

Looks
Like the topside of a big Mydas.
… Herschel Raney, 28 July, 2008 - 10:46am login or register to post comments

 
Mydas
Thanks guys.
It looks like Tony's picture of Phyllomydas sp.
… Charles Schurch Lewallen, 28 July, 2008 - 11:29am login or register to post comments

 
Awesome.
Just had to compliment you on yet another great image!
… Eric R. Eaton, 28 July, 2008 - 3:59pm login or register to post comments

 
Mydas
Thanks, Eric.
… Charles Schurch Lewallen, 28 July, 2008 - 5:20pm login or register to post comments

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