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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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unknown wasp - Physocephala furcillata - male
Copyright © 2015 Roger Rittmaster

unknown wasp - Physocephala furcillata - Male
Camden, Knox County, Maine, USA
August 17, 2015
Size: about 1 cm

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unknown wasp - Physocephala furcillata - male unknown wasp - Physocephala furcillata
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Contributed by Roger Rittmaster on 20 August, 2015 - 8:11pm
Last updated 18 April, 2017 - 9:04am

Moved to P. furcillata
Generally dark gestalt, together with discal cell hyaline; red on thin 2nd abdominal segment and bases of femora; and your far northeast locale all suggest P. furcillata.

The very short 1st antennal segment and (the clear clincher!) the white facial grooves (between the ridges extending downward from the base of the antennae) nail down that ID. (See the species and genus info pages for clarification of all these details if interested.)

Moved from Physocephala.
… Aaron Schusteff, 24 August, 2015 - 12:01pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Conopinae.
… John S. Ascher, 24 August, 2015 - 7:18am login or register to post comments

Fly, not wasp
It's Order Diptera, family Conopidae, likely Psychocephala tibialis.

Reference this URL;

http://bugguide.net/node/view/1113316/bgimage
… Patrick Murray, 20 August, 2015 - 8:16pm login or register to post comments

 
Discal cell hyaline here
...so P. tibialis is ruled out. The often very similar looking P. furcillata has discal cell hysline.
… Aaron Schusteff, 24 August, 2015 - 12:13pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 20 August, 2015 - 8:14pm login or register to post comments

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