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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Muscoidea » Root-Maggot Flies (Anthomyiidae) » Pegomya group » Eutrichota » Eutrichota incompleta
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early-season fly with projecting white face - Eutrichota incompleta
Copyright © 2021 Larry Reis

early-season fly with projecting white face - Eutrichota incompleta
Lake Meyer Park, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
April 19, 2020
Size: ~7 mm
My guess is that this is a root-maggot fly in the genus Leucophora. I have a fly in my photo files with that same projecting white face that was identified as Leucophora from April 2019. With my very limited knowledge of fly ID, I may be wrong though.

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Contributed by Larry Reis on 19 May, 2021 - 7:39am
Last updated 20 May, 2021 - 11:39am

Moved
Moved from Root-Maggot Flies.
… John F. Carr, 20 May, 2021 - 11:39am login or register to post comments

 
Eutrichota incompleta
Thanks so much for determining that this root-maggot fly is Eutrichota incompleta, John! I can't believe that I didn't see the connection to another example of E. incompleta that I found here at Lake Meyer Park earlier in April.
… Larry Reis, 20 May, 2021 - 12:28pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Muscoidea.
… John F. Carr, 19 May, 2021 - 6:07pm login or register to post comments

 
Family Anthomyiidae
Thanks for determining that this is a root-maggot fly, John. I was hoping its distinctive projecting face was unique to Leucophora but evidently not.
… Larry Reis, 20 May, 2021 - 7:45am login or register to post comments

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