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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Sphaeroceroidea » Lesser Dung Flies (Sphaeroceridae) » Limosininae » Spelobia
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Frit Fly - Spelobia
Copyright © 2007 Stephen Luk

Frit Fly - Spelobia
Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada
April 10, 2007
Size: Body Length 1.8 mm
Correct me if I'm wrong. A whole bunch scattered from the when I turned over a detached, soggy and rotting polypore fungus on the ground. I captured this one individual, though.

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Contributed by Stephen Luk on 10 April, 2007 - 8:00pm
Last updated 10 March, 2019 - 10:19am

Moved
Moved from Limosininae.
… Stephen Luk, 10 March, 2019 - 10:19am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Frit Flies.
… Matthias Buck, 20 October, 2007 - 2:24pm login or register to post comments

Frit fly looks right.
Leaf miner flies are similar, but I think the simpler venation on yours points to frit fly.
… Ron Hemberger, 10 April, 2007 - 8:41pm login or register to post comments

 
Sort of what I thought,,,
Just wanted to see what others think of this one. Thanks Ron :-)
… Stephen Luk, 10 April, 2007 - 11:08pm login or register to post comments

 
Glad that worked.
We need more such dialog. Too much goes unsaid here. Let's keep watching each other.
… Ron Hemberger, 10 April, 2007 - 11:32pm login or register to post comments

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