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beautiful insect - Rainieria antennaepes
Copyright © 2006 Charles Schurch Lewallen

beautiful insect - Rainieria antennaepes
Deep Fork Wildlife Refuge, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, USA
April 16, 2006
Size: aprox. 15mm
I have no idea where this would fit in, wasp?
The front two legs with the white patches were always in motion.

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Contributed by Charles Schurch Lewallen on 16 April, 2006 - 1:13pm
Last updated 23 June, 2006 - 2:03pm

Thanks
Thanks to you both.
Always something new!
… Charles Schurch Lewallen, 16 April, 2006 - 1:38pm login or register to post comments

Stilt-legged fly?
Compare with here...
… Tony DiTerlizzi, 16 April, 2006 - 1:19pm login or register to post comments

 
Rainieria
I think that not only is it in the Micropezidae, that it can only be Rainieria antennaepes, and a male at that. Striking difference in leg color from my locals just one state to the east. But there is only one named species in the genus Rainieria.

And, yes, these are some of the loveliest flies out there (well, you know, after robber flies).
… Herschel Raney, 16 April, 2006 - 11:14pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Thanks Herchel.
… Charles Schurch Lewallen, 17 April, 2006 - 7:16am login or register to post comments

 
Tony beat me!
I had just been checking the ID on one of my fly photos from Ecuador that is in family Micropezidae.
… Jim McClarin, 16 April, 2006 - 1:21pm login or register to post comments

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