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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Carnoidea » Frit Flies (Chloropidae) » Grass Flies (Chloropinae) » Parectecephala
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small colorful fly - Parectecephala
Copyright © 2005 tom murray

small colorful fly - Parectecephala
Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
May 28, 2005
Size: 3mm

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Contributed by tom murray on 30 May, 2005 - 8:11am
Last updated 21 May, 2012 - 10:52am

Moved
Moved from Grass Flies.
… v belov, 21 May, 2012 - 10:52am login or register to post comments

Parectecephala
Parectecephala
… Terry Wheeler, 21 May, 2012 - 9:46am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Frit Flies.
… Keith Bayless, 10 February, 2008 - 9:35pm login or register to post comments

Chloropidae
A member of the Chloropidae, not an easy family for identification of species.

Paul

http://www.diptera.info
… Paul Beuk, 30 May, 2005 - 2:15pm login or register to post comments

 
ID characters?
Neat fly, but how do you know to place it in that family? All I have for my field guide now is that some are brightly colored black-and-yellow:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 31 May, 2005 - 3:20pm login or register to post comments

 
Two characters
Both are best visible in the dorsal view:
1. Enlarged triangle for the ocelli. Visible as a very dark, more or less trangle-shaped marking on the top of the head.
2. Wing venation somewhat concentrated in the anterior half of the wing.

Paul

http://www.diptera.info
… Paul Beuk, 31 May, 2005 - 4:35pm login or register to post comments

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