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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Tabanomorpha » Horse and Deer Flies (Tabanidae) » Horse Flies (Tabaninae)
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Tangle-veined fly - male
Copyright © 2010 Werner Eigelsreiter

Tangle-veined fly - Male
Oliver, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada
August 14, 2010
Size: ~17 mm
Trichopsidea clausa ? According to E-Fauna BC there are only two kinds of Tangle-veined flies in B.C.: Neorhynchocephalus sackenii which we already posted pictures in BG and Trichopsidea clausa. The description from E-Fauna fits (proboscis short and fleshy). It never landed but hovered noisely.

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Contributed by Suzanne Eigelsreiter on 15 August, 2010 - 6:44pm
Last updated 17 October, 2011 - 8:05pm

Moved
Moved from Horse and Deer Flies. vindication of this
… Keith Bayless, 17 October, 2011 - 8:05pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Trichopsidea clausa.
… v belov, 17 October, 2011 - 7:28pm login or register to post comments

Not a Nemestrinidae
This is not in the family Nemestrinidae. Nemestrinids have an arista-like style as the last antennal segment, not a short, blunt apex as seen here. Trichopsidea clausa looks very much like Neorhynchocephalus except that the proboscis is short...in fact it is so small that it is not normally visible because the face of Trichopsidea is very hairy.

This is a male tabanid.
… Norm Woodley, 17 October, 2011 - 3:39pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Tangle-veined flies.
… John F. Carr, 12 September, 2010 - 7:47pm login or register to post comments

 
This fly
seems to me a Tabanidae.. Did you look at the antennae? A pity we cannot see the wing venation because it would discard any doubts. But this fly seems so very Tabanidae... Any chance to see the wing venation?
… Jorge Almeida, 25 July, 2011 - 8:12am login or register to post comments

Nice
Super shot!
… Andy Calderwood, 16 August, 2010 - 9:53am login or register to post comments

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