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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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Conopid - Physocephala furcillata - male
Copyright © 2015 Fyn Kynd

Conopid - Physocephala furcillata - Male
Searsmont, Waldo County, Maine, USA
July 15, 2015

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Contributed by Fyn Kynd on 27 October, 2015 - 8:59am
Last updated 4 November, 2015 - 5:25pm

Moved
Moved from Conopinae.

Fyn, P. furcillata is the most common Physocephala in the far north (i.e. Maine and into the Maritime Provinces). Unlike P. tibialis, it has a mostly hyaline discal cell. It also has the shortest 1st antennal segment among all species in the genus.

PS: I'm wondering if the milkweed flowers in the photo were wild or cultivated? (I'm guessing the latter.)
… Aaron Schusteff, 2 November, 2015 - 12:23am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
It's planted Asclepias tuberosa.
… Fyn Kynd, 2 November, 2015 - 8:37am login or register to post comments

 
Milkweed
Thanks for the milkweed info. It looked like A. tuberosa to me (I'm a milkweed fan)...but I wouldn't have thought the natural range of that species would reach as far north as Maine.

However, according to this LBJ Wildflowers Center web page it's native distribution extends from:

  "Ontario to Newfoundland; New England south to Florida; west to Texas; north through Colorado to Minnesota."

So I guess it is indeed native to Maine. (Lucky you, it's a great plant :-)
… Aaron Schusteff, 2 November, 2015 - 6:29pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 27 October, 2015 - 4:34pm login or register to post comments

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