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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Mydas Flies (Mydidae) » Mydinae » Mydas » Mydas maculiventris
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Wasp? Fly? - Mydas maculiventris
Copyright © 2009 David Ricoarango

Wasp? Fly? - Mydas maculiventris
Florida, USA
August 13, 2009
Don't have the size or exact location (other than Florida) on this one. An internet friend took the photo (David Ricoarango).
I will get the size and location when I hear back from him.

I looked for a while but hit a dead end. The antennae didn't look like a wasp to me. Could be a type of fly? I don't know...
Any help would be appreciated.
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Contributed by Bruce on 14 August, 2009 - 4:53pm
Last updated 26 September, 2014 - 4:51am

Moved
Moved from Mydas.
… John S. Ascher, 26 September, 2014 - 4:51am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
Probably maculiventris is correct but let us wait for confirmation.
… Beatriz Moisset, 6 September, 2009 - 9:44am login or register to post comments

MAYBE - Mydas maculiventris
… William Edwards, 14 August, 2009 - 8:28pm login or register to post comments

 
Looks about right..
that looks really close to it. I am betting you are correct, William. Thanks a lot everyone for the help. Might contact the guy another poster has on his image of this species.
… Bruce, 14 August, 2009 - 8:46pm login or register to post comments

Thanks Both of you
Appreciate it. I have never seen any of these in Cali where I live. So its new to me. I will look into the genus you mentioned Jon and move it if I get a for sure ID on it.

Thanks again.
Bruce
… Bruce, 14 August, 2009 - 5:27pm login or register to post comments

 
There are mydas flies at Riley Wilderness Park
in Trabuco Canyon, Orange County. But I haven't seen them often.
Pix here (scroll down to Mydidae): http://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/diptera/index.htm#Brachycera
… Ron Hemberger, 14 August, 2009 - 5:56pm login or register to post comments

 
It's incredible...
how many diff insects there are out there. I would like to see one of these sometime. They look a little like a stiletto fly crossed with a wasp. But I imagine they are much larger than the stiletto I have captured.
… Bruce, 14 August, 2009 - 8:29pm login or register to post comments

I wonder
if this is in the genus, Coenomyia? Looks similar to one I shot in July.
… Jon M. Yuschock, 14 August, 2009 - 5:24pm login or register to post comments

cool
mydid
… Keith Bayless, 14 August, 2009 - 5:16pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks
for getting me started in the right direction!
… Bruce, 14 August, 2009 - 8:46pm login or register to post comments

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