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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Platypezoidea » Flat-footed Flies (Platypezidae)
Photo#278618
Small fly with big red eyes
Copyright © 2009 Mark Fox

Small fly with big red eyes
Honey Island Swamp, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, USA
May 22, 2009
Size: 2.1 mm to abdomen tip
This fly was hopping around like a wild animal, so it was hard to get a closer shot than this.
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Contributed by Mark Fox on 23 May, 2009 - 9:02am
Last updated 21 December, 2009 - 2:51pm

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… v belov, 21 December, 2009 - 2:51pm login or register to post comments

suspect platypezid
like
… v belov, 23 May, 2009 - 10:59pm login or register to post comments

Hey, it is a wild animal.
My best guess is hairy maggot blowfly, Chrysomya megacephala.


If I'm correct as to species, it's a male. They have the bigger eyes.
… Ron Hemberger, 23 May, 2009 - 6:42pm login or register to post comments

 
the blowfly is, like, 3 times the size of this one...
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… v belov, 23 May, 2009 - 7:49pm login or register to post comments

 
Ahhh, you're right, =v=
Would you believe a pygmy blowfly? Bad sizing on my part? An outright gaffe?
… Ron Hemberger, 23 May, 2009 - 8:02pm login or register to post comments

 
well...
...i expect LA, of all places, to be way better w/metric than the rest of the country -- so maybe dismissing all the blowfly measurements as unreliable is probably a good idea.
… v belov, 23 May, 2009 - 8:41pm login or register to post comments

 
I collected the fly
I'll post a more precise (non-guess) measurement shortly.
… Mark Fox, 23 May, 2009 - 10:01pm login or register to post comments

 
I am a great guesser
It is 2.1 mm from the front of the eyes to the tip of the abdomen.
… Mark Fox, 23 May, 2009 - 10:03pm login or register to post comments

 
nice!
thanks -- precise size data always helps
… v belov, 23 May, 2009 - 10:56pm login or register to post comments

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