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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Gnats, Gall Midges, and March Flies (Bibionomorpha) » Wood Gnats (Anisopodidae) » Anisopodinae » Sylvicola » subgenus Sylvicola (Sylvicola subgenus Sylvicola) » Sylvicola alternatus
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Wood Gnat - Sylvicola alternatus - female
Copyright © 2006 tom murray

Wood Gnat - Sylvicola alternatus - Female
Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
April 7, 2006
Size: 5.5mm
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Contributed by tom murray on 7 April, 2006 - 4:41pm
Last updated 3 February, 2012 - 5:59pm

Moved
Moved from Sylvicola.
… John F. Carr, 3 February, 2012 - 5:59pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Wood Gnats.
… Matthias Buck, 15 September, 2008 - 8:24am login or register to post comments

Wood Gnat
of the family Anisopodidae . Notice the numbers of antenna segments in this fly is more than 6, a character for flies in Nematocera. The dance fly, family Empididae, usually has less than 6 antennal segments - Chen
… Chen Young, 7 April, 2006 - 5:45pm login or register to post comments

 
Wood Gnat
Thanks Chen, I'll try to remember about the antennae segments.
… tom murray, 7 April, 2006 - 6:05pm login or register to post comments

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