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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Platypezoidea » Flat-footed Flies (Platypezidae) » Platypezinae » Paraplatypeza » Paraplatypeza coraxa
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Paraplatypeza coraxa
Copyright © 2018 Glen Forister

Paraplatypeza coraxa
Hwy I-80 Exit 161, nr. Yuba Gap exit. 39.3230, -120.6015. Elevation 1,716 m, (5,629 ft)., Nevada` County, California, USA
August 29, 2013
Size: 4 mm
2 species in US but only P. coraxa in California & British Columbia.

Important characters from Manual of Nearctic Diptera (1).
- 2-5 mm long.
- Wing venation various characters important (see keys).
- Hind tarsus flattened, but not ornamented (see pics in Calotarsa for an ornamented example).
- Basal tarsomere of metatarsi shorter than 3rd tarsomere.
- The wing's costal cell "C" (closest to body & on front edge) is scalpel shaped & shorter than pterostigmatal section "Pt" (adjacent cell on wing edge).
- Acrostichal bristles absent.
- Dorsocentral bristles "DC" in regular rows (very short and hard to see).
- Antennae with bare terminal arista; scape and pedicel short and subequal.

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Contributed by Glen Forister on 1 August, 2018 - 4:51pm
Last updated 13 August, 2018 - 2:52pm

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