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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Sciomyzoidea » Thick-headed Flies (Conopidae) » Conopinae » Physocephala » Physocephala furcillata
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Physocephala? - Physocephala furcillata - male
Copyright © 2015 Jason M. Crockwell

Physocephala? - Physocephala furcillata - Male
Bennington/ One World Conservation Center, Bennington County, Vermont, USA
July 30, 2015
Tried to key it out and came up with the wrong species.

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Contributed by Jason M. Crockwell on 14 August, 2015 - 8:58pm
Last updated 18 April, 2017 - 9:05am

Moved
Moved from Physocephala.
… Aaron Schusteff, 25 August, 2015 - 12:40pm login or register to post comments

Would be easy to mis-ID this one...
...since P. marginata and P. furcillata both range into Vermont and can look very similar.

However, the pure black cheeks here (seen most clearly in your 3rd image) and the white facial grooves (seen here in the 1st image) clearly indicate P. furcillata.

P. marginata has cheeks with a lighter central pale spot, and dark facial grooves...see this curated image of P. marginata. For a labelled image indicating the location of the "cheek spots" and "facial grooves", see the post of P. sagittaria below...which also has pale cheek spots and dark facial grooves:

   
… Aaron Schusteff, 25 August, 2015 - 12:38pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Conopinae.
… John S. Ascher, 24 August, 2015 - 7:20am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Thick-headed Flies.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 14 August, 2015 - 8:59pm login or register to post comments

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