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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Oestroidea » Parasitic Flies (Tachinidae) » Phasiinae » Cylindromyiini » Cylindromyia
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ID please? - Cylindromyia
Copyright © 2014 Jennifer Witherspoon

ID please? - Cylindromyia
4 miles outside Graham, Young County, Texas, USA
June 8, 2013
I sadly think I id'd this fly last year, but must not have followed up with documenting it on my photo.
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Contributed by Jennifer Witherspoon on 5 September, 2014 - 8:07am
Last updated 9 September, 2014 - 1:50pm

Moved & cropped for the guide
state abbreviation deleted from the City field [doesn't belong there]

Moved from Tachinidae.
… v belov, 9 September, 2014 - 1:49pm login or register to post comments

Moved for expert attention
Moved from ID Request.

Cylindromyia would be my guess:

… Ken Wolgemuth, 5 September, 2014 - 8:39am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks - do you know why they
Thanks - do you know why they hang upside down? I saw two last year, both so still and upside down - guessing it was their ready position for hunting prey?
… Jennifer Witherspoon, 5 September, 2014 - 8:44am login or register to post comments

 
I think that's a coincidence.
If you click on the thumbnail I provided, and then on the Images tab, you'll see them in a variety of orientations.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 5 September, 2014 - 9:08am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Jennifer Witherspoon, 5 September, 2014 - 8:26am login or register to post comments

I think I found one by chance on your site - sorry.
Can someone confirm it's part of the Tribe Cylindromyiini?
… Jennifer Witherspoon, 5 September, 2014 - 8:24am login or register to post comments

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