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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Ephydroidea » Vinegar Flies (Drosophilidae) » Drosophilinae » Scaptomyza » Scaptomyza montana
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Scaptomyza montana
Copyright © 2019 Charley Eiseman

Scaptomyza montana
Hogback Mountain Conservation Area, Marlboro, Windham County, Vermont, USA
June 19, 2018
Size: ~2 mm
Det. Brad Sinclair; specimens in CNC.

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Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 8 February, 2019 - 2:23pm

Doesn't match description
The description of Scaptomyza montana (Wheeler 1949:166) describes a shiny black species. Also, "One prominent sternopleural, the other bristles being about 1/4 its length." (Two strong here.) "Apex of first costal section with two prominent bristles about equal in length. Third costal section with heavy bristles on its basal 1/2." (No such bristles.)
… John F. Carr, 8 February, 2019 - 6:13pm login or register to post comments

 
Later references...
discuss there being a dark form and a pale form of this species. I can't speak to the bristles, but Brad said he used Wheeler & Takada (1966, figs 9.1-5) and Baechli et al. (2004, figs. 722-725). Do you have those?
… Charley Eiseman, 9 February, 2019 - 8:13am login or register to post comments

 
Have one
I have Wheeler and Takada 1966. They mention a pale yellow northeastern form of montana.
… John F. Carr, 9 February, 2019 - 8:36am login or register to post comments

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