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Tachinid Fly? - Periscepsia
Copyright © 2005 tom murray

Tachinid Fly? - Periscepsia
Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
November 2, 2005
Size: 4.7mm
It was sunning itself on the trunk of a tree.
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Contributed by tom murray on 3 November, 2005 - 7:17pm
Last updated 16 April, 2009 - 3:49pm

Moved
Moved from Temporary page -- submissions reviewed/commented by Dr Woodley.
… v belov, 16 April, 2009 - 3:49pm login or register to post comments

reminds me...
...of the Loewia foeda (Meigen 1824) picture in Marshall 2006, p. 486:3
same as
Moved from Tachinidae.
… v belov, 9 April, 2009 - 2:28pm login or register to post comments

 
opinion of Dr. Woodley:
"A possibility. In our collection here, the specimens of L. foeda have rather uniformly colored wings, and the fly in this image seems to have more variegated wings. Just am not sure."
… v belov, 16 April, 2009 - 3:04pm login or register to post comments

 
plan B: Periscepsia??

too tempting to resist... don't mind me messing with your precious stuff...
… v belov, 16 April, 2009 - 3:46pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… tom murray, 17 October, 2007 - 6:49am login or register to post comments

Tachinid, seconded
(I'm looking at some of the older posts with what, I hope, is newfound knowledge.)
… Ron Hemberger, 16 October, 2007 - 11:32pm login or register to post comments

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