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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Lauxanioidea » Lauxaniidae » Camptoprosopella
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Species - Camptoprosopella
Copyright © 2018 Dav1d88

Species - Camptoprosopella
Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
July 2, 2018
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Contributed by Dav1d88 on 2 July, 2018 - 8:45pm
Last updated 16 July, 2018 - 5:28pm

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… John F. Carr, 16 July, 2018 - 5:28pm login or register to post comments

 
What is required for
Species ID?
… Dav1d88, 16 July, 2018 - 6:34pm login or register to post comments

 
Difficult task
The existing key to species is difficult to use. I suspect this lands in a group of species that can only be separated by the shape of male genitalia. Maybe some day I will be confident enough to create a species group page.
… John F. Carr, 16 July, 2018 - 6:53pm login or register to post comments

 
I hope so
I don't want to dissect anything to discover it's species, considering I am not an entomologist. However I do think there must be some other external characteristics that can identify it to species level. Most likely very minute differences that are just difficult to recognize.

A genus ID doesn't help me in my research but at least I am learning what genera aren't distinguishable to species level yet.
… Dav1d88, 16 July, 2018 - 6:56pm login or register to post comments

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