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Photo#182499
Fly - Drosophila

Fly - Drosophila
Sand Springs, Osage County, Oklahoma, USA
May 13, 2008
Size: 3mm (1/8")
Please help with ID.

Moved
Moved from Drosophila.

Drosophila, maybe repleta group?
It might be in the repleta group. Here is one of the most common species of that group...

http://www.sci.ehime-u.ac.jp/bio/evolut/DSEU_photo/repleta.html

...but there are lots of them, and so I'd just go with the group in general, as with this one...

http://bugguide.net/node/view/37124/bgimage

 
Spotted thorax
The two species groups with hairs arising from spots on the thorax are the repleta group and the annulimana group. Of these two, the repleta groups is found in north america.

Drosophila
You were right in moving this out of shore flies.

Moved
Moved from Shore Flies.

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