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Family Sphaeroceridae - Lesser Dung Flies

Copromyzinae · Limosininae · Sphaerocerinae

Subfamily Copromyzinae
small fly - Lotophila atra Lesser Dung Fly - Copromyza neglecta Fly Flies on rainbow scarab Fly - Copromyza neglecta - female dipteran Fly Fly found in pitfall trap in Annual Rye Grass field

Subfamily Limosininae
Fly Bitheca boleta - female Fly - Leptocera fly Melanagromyza ? - female Suspect Sphaeroceridae? Diptera with eyelash like parts at bottom of wing - Coproica acutangula - male Fly - Leptocera Pullimosina from redwood duff - Pullimosina

Subfamily Sphaerocerinae
Lesser Dung Fly - Ischiolepta Tiny diptera - Mesosphaerocera annulicornis Fly - Mesosphaerocera annulicornis Sphaerocerid - Ischiolepta Parasphaerocera emerging from Pseudoinonotus dryadeus - Parasphaerocera Ischiolepta cf. micropyga - Ischiolepta Ischiolepta cf. micropyga - Ischiolepta Parasphaerocera in Maryland - Parasphaerocera


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