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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Muscoidea » House Flies and kin (Muscidae) » Coenosiinae » Limnophorini » Lispe
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fly with orange palps - Lispe
Copyright © 2020 Larry Reis

fly with orange palps - Lispe
Lake Meyer Park, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
April 16, 2020
Size: ~7 mm
I'm not sure if these photos show enough details to narrow this muscid fly ID down or not, but the orange palps seemed distinctive. I can't remember seeing that feature on a fly around here before.

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Contributed by Larry Reis on 21 April, 2020 - 7:58am
Last updated 21 April, 2020 - 6:46pm

Moved
Moved from Muscoidea.
… Larry Reis, 21 April, 2020 - 6:46pm login or register to post comments

Lispe
Big white palps (at least from some angles) make this Lispe.
… John F. Carr, 21 April, 2020 - 5:11pm login or register to post comments

 
Lispe
Thanks so much for narrowing this muscid fly down to the genus Lispe, John! I looked back through my photo files and found what is likely the same species that I sent to BugGuide on April 15, 2019, only a day earlier than this one! You identified that fly as Lispe too, in the tentaculata group. I think I'll be able to remember this distinctive early-season fly in the future!
… Larry Reis, 21 April, 2020 - 6:45pm login or register to post comments

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