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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Oestroidea » Parasitic Flies (Tachinidae) » Tachininae » Tachinini » Pararchytas » Pararchytas decisus
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Spiny Fly? ID please - Pararchytas decisus
Copyright © 2015 Fran K

Spiny Fly? ID please - Pararchytas decisus
Theodore Roosevelt Park - North Unit - Juniper Campground NW end., North Dakota, USA
June 20, 2015
Size: see notes
This was smaller than a large bumble bee, and a bit larger than a house fly. I do have other photos, including one where a house fly is near it in the same photo.

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Contributed by Fran K on 19 July, 2015 - 2:20am
Last updated 14 February, 2016 - 6:48am

ID'd
Contacted and rec'd reply back:

Hi Fran:

Your tachinid fly is Pararchytas decisus.

Norman E. Woodley, PhD
Systematic Entomology Laboratory - ARS, USDA
c/o Smithsonian Institution NHB-168
P. O. Box 37012
Washington, DC 20013-7012
… Fran K, 29 July, 2015 - 7:35pm login or register to post comments

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