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Species Gonia sagax

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Calyptratae)
Superfamily Oestroidea
Family Tachinidae (Parasitic Flies)
Subfamily Exoristinae
Tribe Goniini
Genus Gonia
Species sagax (Gonia sagax)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Gonia sagax Townsend, 1892
Identification
The antennae are noticeably yellowish in color. Species with dark antennae such as G. frontosa can be confused as having pale antennae due to the white brownish dusting.
Sharing with G. frontosa a short proboscis and more hair-like and finer frontal and parafrontal hairs and setae. Foreleg claws and pulvilli very short.
Range
Eastern USA and Great Plains
Season
Spring
Remarks
The other Gonia species with bright yellow antennae, senilis, is paler and flies later in the year.
See Also
Gonia senilis
Contributed by John F. Carr on 13 February, 2016 - 6:07am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Arturo Santos
Last updated 3 November, 2023 - 4:18pm

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