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Species Nemomydas brachyrhynchus

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)
Superfamily Asiloidea
Family Mydidae (Mydas Flies)
Subfamily Leptomydinae
Genus Nemomydas
Species brachyrhynchus (Nemomydas brachyrhynchus)
Explanation of Names
Nemomydas brachyrhynchus (Osten Sacken 1886)
Identification
Female very colorful...abdominal tergites orange medially, with a posterior yellow band, and an anterior black band:

The two small dark lateral spots near the posterior edge of tergite 2 are distinctive
Range
AZ & Sonora, Mexico
Print References
(1)(2)
Works Cited
1.The Nearctic Nomoneura and Nemomydas (Diptera: Mydaidae)
Hardy D.E. 1950. Wasmann J. Biol. 8: 9-37.
2.The Nemomydas of southwestern United States, Mexico, and Central America (Diptera: Mydidae)
Kondratieff B.C., Welsh J.L. 1990. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 92: 471–482.