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Feather-Legged - Trichopoda pennipes - male

Feather-Legged - Trichopoda pennipes - Male
Near Ruraldale, Upshur County, West Virginia, USA
June 19, 2006
Feather-Legged fly, genus Trichopoda.

I gather the key characteristic for T. pennipes is the clear strip on the rear of the wing. Judging from Internet pictures T. pennipes can have the orange color on the front of the wings, or they may be all-black there. Does anyone know if this is true? If so, I will put this under T. pennipes.

I photographed this on a squash plant, and T. pennipes apparently does lay its eggs on adult squash bugs, as well as green stink bugs. Squash bugs were present on this plant.

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There are five species in this genus in WV but this appears to be pennipes by other images. I don't have a key to this small genus however.

 
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I'm moving to the Trichopoda pennipes page.

Incidentally, yesterday I saw a Trichopoda with no amber on the wings, that did have the clear strip at the rear of the wing, and that had an all-black abdomen. The fly did not want to have its picture taken, however.

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