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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Sphaeroceroidea » Lesser Dung Flies (Sphaeroceridae) » Limosininae » Pterogramma » Pterogramma palliceps
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Lesser Dung Fly - Pterogramma palliceps
Copyright © 2009 tom murray

Lesser Dung Fly - Pterogramma palliceps
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
November 7, 2009
Size: 1.5mm
Found in leaf litter.
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Contributed by tom murray on 7 November, 2009 - 8:03pm
Last updated 9 November, 2009 - 3:56pm

Moved
This is P. palliceps, based on the locality. It is the only species in this genus in the northeast (there are hundreds of species, almost all undescribed, in the Neotropics, but only 3 spp. known in the US).

Moved from Pterogramma.
… Joel Kits, 9 November, 2009 - 3:56pm login or register to post comments

genus
Pterogramma. Moved from Flies. Pretty distinctive genus of limoninines based on the very short R2+3 vein and contrasting yellow head
… Keith Bayless, 8 November, 2009 - 4:20am login or register to post comments

 
nice -- thanks guys
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… v belov, 8 November, 2009 - 12:11pm login or register to post comments

consider Phoridae
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… v belov, 7 November, 2009 - 8:41pm login or register to post comments

 
=v= you're probably right
I just haven't seen one quite like this one before. And I did find quite a few other more common Phorod flies in the same leaf litter.
… tom murray, 7 November, 2009 - 10:16pm login or register to post comments

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