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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Acalyptratae » Tephritoidea » Cheese skippers and kin (Piophilidae) » Prochyliza » Prochyliza xanthostoma
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Waltzing Fly? - Prochyliza xanthostoma
Copyright © 2006 Jay Cossey

Waltzing Fly? - Prochyliza xanthostoma
Adams County, Ohio, USA
April 16, 2006
Size: approx. 1/4 inch
Is this what's called a Waltzing fly? Prochyliza sp.? Found it staking out territory on a dead opossum.
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Contributed by Jay Cossey on 24 April, 2006 - 1:36pm
Last updated 21 April, 2008 - 8:24am

Moved
Moved from Prochyliza.
… Matthias Buck, 21 April, 2008 - 8:24am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Cheese skippers and kin.
… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 6 February, 2007 - 8:45pm login or register to post comments

yes
genus Prochyliza
… Keith Bayless, 4 February, 2007 - 5:10pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… Eric R. Eaton, 1 December, 2006 - 5:50pm login or register to post comments

"Cheese skipper?"
I've never heard of a "waltzing fly", but this reminds me of one of the "skipper" flies in the family Piophilidae. This is an excellents shot, so identification should be relatively easy. Anyway, the family is named for the larvae, which can jump quite a distance by grasping their "tail" in their mouth and then suddenly releasing it. They generally breed in rancid fats.
… Eric R. Eaton, 28 April, 2006 - 5:50pm login or register to post comments

 
Cheesy!
Thanks Eric

I found a website that called it a Waltzing Fly, so I attached that name to it. Read this if you dare...
http://www.bees.unsw.edu.au/school/researchstaff/bonduriansky/waltzingfly.html

Fascinating creatures. Thanks for the natural history!

Jay Cossey
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… Jay Cossey, 1 May, 2006 - 1:50pm login or register to post comments

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