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Eulonchus species? - Eulonchus tristis

Eulonchus species? - Eulonchus tristis
Alex Hole, Klamath National Forest, Siskiyou County, California, USA
July 8, 2006
My best guess for this dipteran (with help from my friends:-) is family Acroceridae, genus Eulonchus. (Perhaps species tristis? See this BugGuide entry.) It was nectaring on flowers of Lewisia cotyledon, at an elevation of around 6500 ft, in a rocky opening in coniferous forest in the Siskiyou Mountains just south of the Oregon border.

The gray "disks" (guitar-pick shaped) tucked at the base of the wings are intriguing. (Calypters?)

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Eulonchus species? - Eulonchus tristis Eulonchus species? - Eulonchus tristis

Moved
Moved from Eulonchus.

Moved
Moved from Small-headed Flies.

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