early-season fly with projecting white face - Eutrichota incompleta

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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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early-season fly with projecting white face - Eutrichota incompleta

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

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

Moved

Moved from Muscoidea.

… John F. Carr, 19 May, 2021 - 6:07pm

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

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