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Possibly Hydrophoria or Zaphne

Root-Maggot Fly - female Root-Maggot Fly - female Root-Maggot Flies Hydrophoria or Zaphne - male Anthomyiidae - Root-Maggot Flies Fly 2 Hydrophoria or Zaphne ? Diptera - Flies Fly - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Calyptratae)
Superfamily Muscoidea
Family Anthomyiidae (Root-Maggot Flies)
No Taxon Possibly Hydrophoria or Zaphne
Remarks
This page was originally titled "resembling Hydrophoria lancifer" based on the resemblence to that common species(1) Other species of Hydrophoria and Zaphne may be included. Most species of Anthomyiidae with plumose arista and dark legs belong to those genera.
Zaphne typically have length of aristal pubescence on the shorter limits for Hydrophoria, mid tibiae almost always with anterior/anteroventral setae, the presutural acrostichals represented by weakly differentiated setae or simply a strip of 3-5 rows of setulae, in some cases a short prealar, or with setulae on the notopleura. Generally only Z. divisa, Z. brunneifrons, and Z. occidentalis can have pale colored tibiae. Z. divisa lacks anteroventral setae on the mid tibiae. The dark-legged Z. proxima may lack anteroventral setae on the mid tibiae.
Works Cited
1.Hydrophoria lancifer