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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Xylophagidae » Coenomyia » Coenomyia ferruginea
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Xylophagidae, dorsal - Coenomyia ferruginea - female
Copyright © 2014 MJ Hatfield

Xylophagidae, dorsal - Coenomyia ferruginea - Female
Plymouth Rock, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
June 13, 2014
Size: 23 mm
At first I thought I had collected 2 different species but after checking BG, they are the same species. This is the other individual:
Is this sexual dimorphism?
swept in a weedy ravine (where a small bulldozer did work to fix erosion from a February rain on frozen ground)

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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 20 December, 2014 - 8:15am
Last updated 23 January, 2017 - 7:54pm

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