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anthomyzid - Anthomyza variegata - female

anthomyzid - Anthomyza variegata - Female
Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
July 14, 2021
Size: body 3.2mm wing 2.6mm
Appears to key out to AnthomyzaA. neglecta species groupA. variegata using the Roháčk and Barber 2016 keys (1). That ID gets more tenuous with each succeeding key so I'd appreciate confirmation/correction of the ID.

TIA

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update: Species ID kindly confirmed as Anthomyza variegata by Kevin Barber. He also provided some additional and useful information about IDs in this genus:

"I get the impression from museum holdings that A.variegata is a very common anthomyzid in your area, and as far as I know, as yet the only member of the neglecta-group recorded from MD (but that could change at any time).
Distinctions between closely related females are often (or usually) more of a struggle than are males in this family.  Males will usually have enough of their external genitalia exposed to allow a confident ID.  The distinction between A.variegata and A.dichroa is much more straightforward than is that between A.gibbiger and A.orthogibbus, for instance.  A rare contrast is the pair of Arganthomyza socculata and Arg. disjuncta where the females are more confidently separated than are the males."

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