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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Ephydroidea » Shore Flies (Ephydridae) » Ilytheinae » Philygria » Philygria debilis
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Stripey little fly - Philygria debilis
Copyright © 2011 Charley Eiseman

Stripey little fly - Philygria debilis
Mt. Greylock summit, Adams, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA
June 10, 2011
Size: 2 mm
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Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 15 June, 2011 - 7:13pm
Last updated 1 November, 2014 - 11:37am

Moved
Moved from Philygria.
… John F. Carr, 1 November, 2014 - 11:37am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ilytheinae.
… John F. Carr, 25 September, 2014 - 8:35am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ephydrinae.

I was confused about what groups went in what subfamilies in the new (post-1992) classification.
… John F. Carr, 16 November, 2013 - 6:23pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Shore Flies.
… John F. Carr, 14 November, 2013 - 6:34pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… John F. Carr, 5 March, 2013 - 5:45pm login or register to post comments

Looks like Philygria
Looks like Philygria.
… John F. Carr, 5 March, 2013 - 5:45pm login or register to post comments

Looks like Sapromyza brachysoma
But 2mm is smaller than any of the ones I've seen.
… tom murray, 15 June, 2011 - 9:19pm login or register to post comments

 
Different
The two flies have different bristles on the thorax and different wings.
… John F. Carr, 18 June, 2011 - 5:52pm login or register to post comments

 
Oh yeah... I didn't recognize it
The one I found this winter was ~2.5 mm... 2 to 5 mm does seem like a big range though. Are you including the wings in your measurement? Even then, I'd only get 3 mm or so.
… Charley Eiseman, 15 June, 2011 - 9:35pm login or register to post comments

 
Whenever I can see the end of the abdomen, I measure just the body length. This could be a species with a wide range of sizes.
… tom murray, 15 June, 2011 - 10:15pm login or register to post comments

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