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Photo#68210
Hangingfly - Bittacus

Hangingfly - Bittacus
Johnston, Polk County, Iowa, USA
July 30, 2006
Size: 13-15 mm
This specimen (13-15 mm) appears to have be a nymph of some type.
Comments appreciated.

sweet... Lew, please hunt this thing down & post more pix
Joshua's comment sounds very intriguing indeed.

Moved from Bittacus.

ID uncertain
This is a wonderful and curious photo, but ID is perplexing. The wing veins nor genitalia can be seen well. The yellow and black banding on the left pro-and mesothoracic femora and tibiae are strange. So are the whitish pleural membranes of the abdomen. The metathoracic right tarsus is also missing.

Moved
Moved from Hangingflies. This is a member of genus Bittacus. There are only two genera in the family in the East and mid-west, and this is Bittacus, which rests with wings folded.

hangingfly
not a nymph (it's got wings)
see the Bittacidae page

 
Moved
to family page, added county name

 
Hangingfly
Thanks, Joyce. Of course, you are correct. I was in such a hurry that I didn't even look at the wings.

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