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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Oestroidea » Parasitic Flies (Tachinidae) » Dexiinae » Epigrimyiini » Beskia » Beskia aelops
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a fly - Beskia aelops
Copyright © 2014 B. Bockhahn

a fly - Beskia aelops
Raven Rock State Park, Harnett County, North Carolina, USA
July 12, 2014
on sneezeweed
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Contributed by B. Bockhahn on 13 July, 2014 - 11:19am
Last updated 23 July, 2014 - 11:20am

awesome -- our only second photo of this genus
thanks, BB... hope you see more of them and be able to take more pics for the guide

Moved from Tachinidae.
… v belov, 23 July, 2014 - 11:20am login or register to post comments

Tachinidae: Beskia aelops
Tachinidae: Beskia aelops
… Norm Woodley, 23 July, 2014 - 11:18am login or register to post comments

 
Different antenna
This has a much different antenna from the figure of a male head in Manual of Nearctic Diptera (p. 1229 fig. 111) and the other photo placed on this page. Is that a sexual difference, making this one female?
… John F. Carr, 13 September, 2015 - 7:40pm login or register to post comments

any other angles?
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 13 July, 2014 - 11:38pm login or register to post comments

 
No
No, that's it sorry.
… B. Bockhahn, 16 July, 2014 - 8:00pm login or register to post comments

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