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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Tephritoidea » Fruit Flies (Tephritidae) » Tephritinae » Terelliini » Terellia » Terellia fuscicornis
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Fly with broad tail - Terellia fuscicornis - female
Copyright © 2009 Elliotte Rusty Harold

Fly with broad tail - Terellia fuscicornis - Female
Gum Grove Park, Orange County, California, USA
June 13, 2009
Size: a bit < housefly
This is one weird looking fly. The tail reminds me of a clam's foot. I found it on the edge of a currently dry salt marsh, next to a Eucalyptus grove.
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Contributed by Elliotte Rusty Harold on 14 June, 2009 - 12:19am
Last updated 16 September, 2009 - 9:01pm

Moved
Moved from Fruit Flies.
… Martin Hauser, 16 September, 2009 - 8:32pm login or register to post comments

 
glad i lived to see her get a name!
thanks all
… v belov, 16 September, 2009 - 8:42pm login or register to post comments

 
YEa she is a beauty, and she
YEa she is a beauty, and she likes Artichokes! Although she is from Europe... and this is the first record of this species on BG
… Martin Hauser, 16 September, 2009 - 8:44pm login or register to post comments

 
great -- thanx for the tip, Martin
i'll report her to Authorities immediately :-]
… v belov, 16 September, 2009 - 8:48pm login or register to post comments

 
Authorities?
That is a new one. Made me laugh : )
Thanks.
… Beatriz Moisset, 16 September, 2009 - 8:55pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies. looks like a terelliine but I'm not sure.
… Keith Bayless, 14 June, 2009 - 4:12pm login or register to post comments

Very nice fly and photo
Some sort of fruit fly, perhaps.
… Ron Hemberger, 14 June, 2009 - 12:01pm login or register to post comments

 
An Aha Moment - Neaspilota
An import to keep down thistle. I've shot them in Peters Canyon, but your photo is so much better than mine that I didn't recognize the fly at first.


One with a tail-end more like yours is here: http://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/diptera/Neaspilota.htm
… Ron Hemberger, 14 June, 2009 - 6:50pm login or register to post comments

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