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Cephalochrysa canadensis (Curran) - Cephalochrysa canadensis
Copyright © 1970 Edgar Cohen

Cephalochrysa canadensis (Curran) - Cephalochrysa canadensis
Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
August 1, 1970
Size: 8 mm
This attractive small Stratiomyid fly was identified by Dr. Norm Woodley, of the US National Museum. I encourage more entomologists to submit images of flies in this genus. I haven't seen any others posted on the Internet.
Contributed by Edgar Cohen on 20 March, 2007 - 2:32pm
Last updated 20 March, 2007 - 11:11pm

I added two more (pinned) spe
I added two more (pinned) species of this genus... I have never collected them myself and they seem to be not very common...
Cheers
Martin
… Martin Hauser, 20 March, 2007 - 11:24pm

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