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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Acalyptratae » Stilt-legged Flies (Micropezidae) » Taeniapterinae » Taeniaptera » Taeniaptera trivittata
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Fly with hooked abdomen - Taeniaptera trivittata
Copyright © 2009 Marie L. Schmidt

Fly with hooked abdomen - Taeniaptera trivittata
Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
June 2, 2009
Size: Body 8mm
This fly was found in a wooded area. It has long legs and a hooked abdomen.

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Contributed by Marie L. Schmidt on 2 June, 2009 - 5:37pm
Last updated 16 June, 2009 - 11:41am

Moved
Moved from Taeniaptera.
… John R. Maxwell, 16 June, 2009 - 11:41am login or register to post comments

Taeniaptera trivittata
Taeniaptera trivittata is the type species for the genus Taeniaptera
… Morgan Jackson, 16 June, 2009 - 10:18am login or register to post comments

 
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Many thanks for the ID.
… Marie L. Schmidt, 16 June, 2009 - 12:37pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Stilt-legged Flies.
… Joel Kits, 15 June, 2009 - 5:15pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.

The ones that look like this have been placed in Taeniapterinae but I know nothing of the family.
… John F. Carr, 2 June, 2009 - 5:55pm login or register to post comments

Coincidence
It's a thing-I-just-took-a-picture-of-an-hour-ago-and-was-about-to-upload.

I thought it was an ant at first. Mine was tapping its legs on a leaf.
… John F. Carr, 2 June, 2009 - 5:49pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
for responding and I hope you upload yours too. Does it look like the same species? There are several similar images here in BugGuide and the span from Massachusetts to Florida to Louisiana, but I don't know if these are one species.
… Marie L. Schmidt, 2 June, 2009 - 7:43pm login or register to post comments

Micropezidae
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… v belov, 2 June, 2009 - 5:46pm login or register to post comments

 
Many thanks again!
There are several images of similar flies her in Bugguide but not all have the hooked abdomen. Is this a sexual dimorphism?
… Marie L. Schmidt, 2 June, 2009 - 7:47pm login or register to post comments

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