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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Tephritoidea » Fruit Flies (Tephritidae) » Tephritinae » Acrotaeniini » Tomoplagia » Tomoplagia obliqua
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Fruit fly - Tomoplagia obliqua - male
Copyright © 2016 Betsy Betros

Fruit fly - Tomoplagia obliqua - Male
Lenexa, Johnson County, Kansas, USA
October 16, 2016
came to honey/water bait in a woodland edge by a remnant tall grass prairie

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Contributed by Betsy Betros on 16 October, 2016 - 10:29pm
Last updated 17 October, 2016 - 3:50pm

Moved
Moved from Fruit Flies.
… Betsy Betros, 16 October, 2016 - 10:55pm login or register to post comments

Tomoplagia obliqua (male)…
Vernonia is the primary host for this species.

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 16 October, 2016 - 10:41pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
I have lots of Vernonia!
… Betsy Betros, 16 October, 2016 - 10:54pm login or register to post comments

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