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Big Springs mystery fly - female? - Suragina concinna - female
Copyright © 2009 Joshua Stuart Rose

Big Springs mystery fly - female? - Suragina concinna - Female
Big Springs Ranch, Real County, Texas, USA
June 6, 2009
This much more female-looking individual was well downstream of the putative male, in an area where the creek was relatively wider, slower, and more soft-bottomed.
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Contributed by Joshua Stuart Rose on 16 June, 2009 - 1:52am
Last updated 1 July, 2009 - 2:14am

Moved
Moved from Suragina.
… Keith Bayless, 1 July, 2009 - 2:14am login or register to post comments

Athericidae: Suragina concinna
Athericidae: Suragina concinna
… Norm Woodley, 30 June, 2009 - 9:04am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks again Norm!
And thanks for the new guide page Keith!
… Joshua Stuart Rose, 1 July, 2009 - 8:30am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Snipe Flies.
… Joshua Stuart Rose, 17 June, 2009 - 9:44pm login or register to post comments

It's hard to tell
but this might be Athericidae: Suragina sp.
or it might be a rhagionid. The same goes for the others from the same collecting event.
… Keith Bayless, 16 June, 2009 - 4:18pm login or register to post comments

 
...
Suragina would be my guess too, especially the locale.
… Matt Bertone, 17 June, 2009 - 11:49am login or register to post comments

 
Good enough for me, for now...
Thanks guys! As Suragina is not yet on the Guide, I will create a page and move these photos there, just as a place-holder/standing hypothesis. Whenever someone contributes better photos of the species, or my photos turn out to be of some other species, will make changes.
… Joshua Stuart Rose, 17 June, 2009 - 9:18pm login or register to post comments

?
Who identified it as a rhagionid? I'm not saying that is wrong, just wondering. I've never seen anything like this fly.
… Eric R. Eaton, 16 June, 2009 - 8:10am login or register to post comments

 
yours truly
Rhagionidae was my best guess, based on overall body shape. I'm open to suggestions if you have a better idea...
… Joshua Stuart Rose, 16 June, 2009 - 8:18am login or register to post comments

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