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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Sphaeroceroidea » Lesser Dung Flies (Sphaeroceridae) » Sphaerocerinae » Ischiolepta
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Lesser Dung Fly - Sphaerocerinae - Ischiolepta - male
Copyright © 2009 Lynn Bergen

Lesser Dung Fly - Sphaerocerinae - Ischiolepta - Male
Baiting Hollow, Suffolk County, New York, USA
May 2, 2009
Size: small
Hundreds of these came with some fresh horse manure.

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Lesser Dung Fly - Sphaerocerinae - Ischiolepta - male Lesser Dung Fly - Sphaerocerinae - Ischiolepta
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Contributed by Lynn Bergen on 4 May, 2009 - 5:19am
Last updated 19 January, 2019 - 8:16am

Ischiolepta pusilla or vaporariorum, male
Distinctive are the thickened hind femora in the male. I. pusilla is much more common than I. vaporariorum. Genitalia need to be examined to distinguish the two.
… Matthias Buck, 16 May, 2009 - 10:46am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Sphaerocerinae.
… Matthias Buck, 16 May, 2009 - 10:45am login or register to post comments

Sphaerocerine
This is in the subfamily Sphaerocerinae.
… Joel Kits, 4 May, 2009 - 11:12pm login or register to post comments

 
Sphaerocerinae
Thanks Joel.
… Lynn Bergen, 7 May, 2009 - 1:07pm login or register to post comments

unk Brown Fly
Family Sphaeroceridae
… JBurger, 4 May, 2009 - 8:28am login or register to post comments

 
Definitely Sphaerocerid, genu
Definitely Sphaerocerid, genus Lotophila?
… R.J. Deady, 4 May, 2009 - 10:21am login or register to post comments

 
look in Copromyzinae
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… v belov, 4 May, 2009 - 10:13am login or register to post comments

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