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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Tabanomorpha » Snipe Flies (Rhagionidae) » Chrysopilus » Chrysopilus proximus
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Swamp flies mating - Chrysopilus proximus - male - female
Copyright © 2009 Lloyd Davidson

Swamp flies mating - Chrysopilus proximus - Male Female
Ahnapee Trail, Kewanee, Door County, Wisconsin, USA
July 21, 2009
The female is the larger, lighter colored of the two and the male was far more passive, in fact looked dead (but wasn't), while the female was very alert.

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Contributed by Lloyd Davidson on 26 November, 2009 - 3:09pm
Last updated 26 May, 2012 - 8:20pm

Moved
Moved from Chrysopilus.
… Brad Barnd, 26 May, 2012 - 8:20pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Snipe Flies.
… Peter Kerr, 27 July, 2010 - 3:34pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies. It does kind of look like an atherid,but in athericids R2+3 meets R1 before the wing margin forming a closed cell. This is probably Chrysopilus but I'm not sure at the moment.
… Keith Bayless, 10 December, 2009 - 9:30pm login or register to post comments

Rhagionidae?
Was going to say Athericidae at first but the wings don't seem right to me...
… Miles Zhang, 26 November, 2009 - 9:10pm login or register to post comments

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