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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Xylophagidae » Xylophagus » larvae and pupae (Xylophagus larvae and pupae)
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xylophagidae - Xylophagus
Copyright © 2013 Tara33

xylophagidae - Xylophagus
Oakland, Maryland, USA
November 7, 2013
Size: 4.9 mm
I believe this belongs to the xylophagidae family? Anyone know genius or species? This was found underneath bark from a scarlet oak.
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Contributed by Tara33 on 15 November, 2013 - 8:21am
Last updated 30 September, 2015 - 8:08pm

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Immature Stages.
… John F. Carr, 30 September, 2015 - 3:31pm login or register to post comments

Xylophagidae: Xylophagus sp.
Xylophagidae: Xylophagus sp.
… Norm Woodley, 30 September, 2015 - 2:46pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… John F. Carr, 3 March, 2014 - 11:50am login or register to post comments

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… Charley Eiseman, 5 December, 2013 - 4:10pm login or register to post comments

Key to Xylophagidae larvae
I can't confirm ID, but I can offer this key to larvae of Xylophagidae from Manual of Nearctic Diptera (volume 1, page 492):

1. Head capsule at least three times as long as broad. Thoracic segments with sclerotized plates dorsally. → 2
    Head capsule not more than twice as long as broad. Thoracic segments not sclerotized dorsally → Coenomyia

2. Sclerotization of prothorax in form of amoeba-shaped plates. → Rachicerus
    Sclerotized area of prothorax not divided into amoeba-shaped plates → Xylophaga
… John F. Carr, 15 November, 2013 - 9:46am login or register to post comments

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