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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Mydas Flies (Mydidae) » Leptomydinae » Pseudonomoneura » Pseudonomoneura californica
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Pseudonomoneura - Pseudonomoneura californica - female
Copyright © 2017 Jay Keller

Pseudonomoneura - Pseudonomoneura californica - Female
Yuha Cutoff, Imperial County, California, USA
July 3, 2015

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Contributed by Jay Keller on 17 July, 2017 - 7:17pm
Last updated 6 July, 2018 - 2:41am

Thanks for posting these photos, Jay
Good to have images of a female, and a record for this far southern US station.
… Aaron Schusteff, 22 July, 2017 - 8:35pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Pseudonomoneura.

This is clearly a female, from the two semi-circular, many-spined, acanthophorites at the terminal tip of the abdomen.

It keys to P. californica in Hardy(1950), and agrees well with the description of the female on pg. 14 there. Some diagnostic characters are: elongate proboscis; black legs and terga 3 to 6 (at least) red; terminal segment of antennae black, posterior corners of terga and legs lacking any white tomemtum, thorax dull (vs. shining) black.

The location is also reasonable for P. californica: note that Hardy gives a record from Westmoreland, Imperial Co., CA; and Fitzgerald & Kondratieff(1995) give records from east of Calexico, Imperial Co., CA; and San Felipe, Baja California Norte. Though further west, the Yuha Cut-off locale here is in general the same region and habitat.
… Aaron Schusteff, 22 July, 2017 - 8:21pm login or register to post comments

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