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Polybiomyia sayi? - Polybiomyia townsendi - male
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Polybiomyia sayi? - Polybiomyia townsendi - Male
Salero Ranch, E of Tubac, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
May 31, 2020
Size: about 1 cm

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Polybiomyia sayi? - Polybiomyia townsendi - male Polybiomyia sayi? - Polybiomyia townsendi - male
Contributed by Sue Carnahan on 1 June, 2020 - 8:34pm
Last updated 5 November, 2020 - 12:26pm

Moved
Moved from Flies.

(Martin should of course move it if necessary)
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 2 June, 2020 - 6:49am

Polybiomyia townsendi
Polybiomyia townsendi… male
The frontal prominence is yellow orange and legs reddish but both are black in Polybiomyia sayi; narrowest part of tergite 2 more noticeably orange than sayi.
Base of wing veins orange but black in Polybiomyia sayi.
I have sent it to Dr. Martin Hauser.
… Bill Dean, 2 June, 2020 - 1:11am

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