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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Sciomyzoidea » Thick-headed Flies (Conopidae) » Conopinae » Physocephala » Physocephala tibialis
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Wasp-mimic Fly ID Request - Physocephala tibialis
Copyright © 2008 Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City

Wasp-mimic Fly ID Request - Physocephala tibialis
Herring Run Park, Baltimore City County, Maryland, USA
August 27, 2008
Observed on Reynoutria japonica -- a good place to be if you mimic wasps! Seems these mimic Eumenes fraterna in flight.

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Contributed by Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City on 28 August, 2008 - 5:08pm
Last updated 25 December, 2013 - 10:30pm

Moved
Moved from Physocephala.
… Beatriz Moisset, 25 December, 2013 - 10:30pm login or register to post comments

P. tibialis
This is P. tibialis...the dark discal cell, and black cheek and facial grooves are all diagnostic of that species (e.g. see couplets 15 and 24 in the key here).
… Aaron Schusteff, 25 December, 2013 - 7:24pm login or register to post comments

Conopidae
The thickening of the femur suggests that it is Physocephala because Physoconops doesn't have that.
… Beatriz Moisset, 28 August, 2008 - 5:12pm login or register to post comments

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