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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Small-headed Flies (Acroceridae) » Ogcodes » Ogcodes borealis
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Diptera - Ogcodes borealis
Copyright © 2010 Scott Justis

Diptera - Ogcodes borealis
Norfolk, Virginia, USA
May 26, 2010
Size: ~7mm (head to wingtip)
The halteres look like small wings instead of stubs which most other flies seem to have. Looks like this thing needs all of the wing area it can get to actually fly!

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Contributed by Scott Justis on 30 May, 2010 - 9:05pm
Last updated 28 July, 2010 - 6:46pm

In response to your halteres remark...
The pale, black-rimmed, membranous disks at the wing bases are called "sqaumae" or "calypters". They're covering the halteres here, which aren't visible.

Calypters are present in many calyptrate flies (e.g. tachinids), and are distinctively conspicuous in Acroceridae.
… Aaron Schusteff, 15 January, 2012 - 1:09am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ogcodes.
… Dennis Haines, 28 July, 2010 - 6:46pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Small-headed Flies.
… Dennis Haines, 1 June, 2010 - 9:45am login or register to post comments

 
The dark body color and pale-
The dark body color and pale-yellowish legs seem to make this Ogcodes borealis Cole, 1919.
… Dennis Haines, 28 July, 2010 - 6:45pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… Martin Hauser, 31 May, 2010 - 4:40pm login or register to post comments

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