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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Carnoidea » Frit Flies (Chloropidae) » Oscinellinae » Elachiptera
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Elachiptera
Copyright © 2020 Steve Scholnick

Elachiptera
Great Falls, C&O Canal, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
February 11, 2020
Size: body 2.3mm
Keys out to Elachiptera using the MND chloropid key (1). Using Sabrosky's 1948 key (2) supplemented with the new couplets from Sabrosky & Valley (3), this one appears to key out to Elachiptera erythropleura. It looks like the one example in the guide and appears to fit Sabrosky's description of the species (1). However, 4 of the 5 examples at BOLD have brighter and more yellow pleura (here). The specimens Sabrosky lists include some from an area just south of where I found this one.

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Contributed by Steve Scholnick on 16 February, 2020 - 9:30pm
Last updated 17 February, 2020 - 9:00am

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… John F. Carr, 17 February, 2020 - 9:00am login or register to post comments

Near costata
It should fall in the Elachiptera costata group but it does not match any named species. Maybe it's undescribed, maybe the species are more variable than Sabrosky thought.
… John F. Carr, 17 February, 2020 - 8:59am login or register to post comments

 
thanks
I agree, it doesn't quite fit Sabrosky's description, particularly in lack of pollen stripes on the notum.
… Steve Scholnick, 17 February, 2020 - 10:40am login or register to post comments

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