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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Psychodomorpha » Moth Flies and Sand Flies (Psychodidae) » Moth Flies (Psychodinae) » unidentified genus / species C
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Moth Fly
Copyright © 2006 tom murray

Moth Fly
Ayer, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
November 26, 2006
Size: 2.5mm
Found feeding on sap from a birch sapling cut down by a beaver.
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Contributed by tom murray on 27 November, 2006 - 7:19pm
Last updated 22 September, 2013 - 9:05am

Moved
Moved from Moth Flies.
… David J. Ferguson, 22 September, 2013 - 12:07am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Moth Flies and Sand Flies.
… Omar Fahmy, 28 November, 2006 - 8:08am login or register to post comments

Mothfly
Nice! Looks like a Psychodid to me.
… Sean McCann, 27 November, 2006 - 7:36pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Sean
It's a little different from the ones I've seen here before, but there are others close to it in the guide.
… tom murray, 28 November, 2006 - 5:41am login or register to post comments

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