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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Empidoidea » Longlegged Flies (Dolichopodidae) » Sciapodinae » Condylostylus » sipho group (Condylostylus sipho group) » Condylostylus sipho
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Longlegged fly - Condylostylus sipho - male
Copyright © 2012 Kelly Fiegle

Longlegged fly - Condylostylus sipho - Male
Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana, USA
July 16, 2011
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Contributed by Kelly Fiegle on 9 February, 2012 - 5:54am
Last updated 28 December, 2012 - 2:30am

Moved
Moved from sipho group.
… John F. Carr, 18 February, 2012 - 6:38pm login or register to post comments

Confusing
The row of hairs on the mid tibia should either continue at the same spacing onto the mid basitarsus or stop. In your fly and another from Wisconsin the row continues with spacing more or less doubled.
… John F. Carr, 9 February, 2012 - 7:00pm login or register to post comments

 
Could it be brimleyi, furcatus, or longitalus?
On the info page for sipho group (Condylostylus sipho group), you wrote that brimleyi, furcatus, and longitalus do not have long rows of bristles of uniformly spaced bristles. Could it be one of these species? Or am I misunderstanding?
Thanks for all of your help :)
… Kelly Fiegle, 10 February, 2012 - 12:18pm login or register to post comments

 
Bristles
Your fly has the row of bristles on the tibia. They are about as long as the diameter of the tibia.
… John F. Carr, 11 February, 2012 - 6:33am login or register to post comments

 
Bristles
Since the spacing of the bristles is more or less doubled from the mid tibia to the mid basitarsus, does that mean that the spacing is not uniform?
… Kelly Fiegle, 11 February, 2012 - 7:22am login or register to post comments

 
Tentatively sipho
I have decided to call the species with sparse bristles on the mid basitarsus sipho. That's the closest match, and scaber and viridicoxa are more common to the south.
… John F. Carr, 18 February, 2012 - 6:38pm login or register to post comments

 
That's the problem
The bristles should continue in the same pattern or mostly disappear, not continue with greater spacing.
… John F. Carr, 11 February, 2012 - 7:36am login or register to post comments

 
I finally get it now
Thanks for all your time and attention :)
… Kelly Fiegle, 11 February, 2012 - 7:41am login or register to post comments

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