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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Platypezoidea » Pointed-winged Flies (Lonchopteridae) » Lonchoptera » Lonchoptera bifurcata
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Fly - Lonchoptera bifurcata - female
Copyright © 2007 Stephen Luk

Fly - Lonchoptera bifurcata - Female
Richmond Hill, York Region, Ontario, Canada
May 2, 2007
Size: Body 2.5 mm
Apologies for this set of lousy images. The camera was acting up, so I had to use manual focus, which is terrible when it comes to a point-and-shoot camera. I'm hoping to get an ID for this fly, but if the set is of no value to the Guide, I will frass it.
Collected in the backyard by sweeping through grass with a net.

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Contributed by Stephen Luk on 5 May, 2007 - 8:05pm
Last updated 6 July, 2009 - 2:47pm

Moved
Moved from Lonchoptera. Thanks Stephen and John Klymko for sorting out these lonchopterids!
… Keith Bayless, 6 July, 2009 - 2:47pm login or register to post comments

Lonchoptera bifurcata (Fallén, 1810)
Det. John Klymko 2009. This is the most common species in the east, and is characterized by yellow post-ocellar bristles, 2+ bristles on the fore tibiae, and habitat in lawns.
… Stephen Luk, 6 July, 2009 - 2:38pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… Keith Bayless, 13 May, 2007 - 9:41pm login or register to post comments

Lonchopteridae
A spear-winged fly - I think Lonchoptera is the only genus.
… Donald S. Chandler, 5 May, 2007 - 8:15pm login or register to post comments

 
Only 3 species this could be.
Only 3 species this could be... furcata, borealis or occidentalis... L. uniseta is shown as having a different venation in the Neartic Manual
… Joe, Entomologist (in training), 5 May, 2007 - 8:22pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks guys
I have no manual for fly identification, so I don't know if images alone are sufficient for a species ID - but we seem to be close to it. Are the other images even useful at all??
… Stephen Luk, 5 May, 2007 - 10:01pm login or register to post comments

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