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Species Rhamphomyia luteiventris

Fly - Rhamphomyia luteiventris - male Fly - Rhamphomyia luteiventris Fly - Rhamphomyia luteiventris
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)
Superfamily Empidoidea
Family Empididae (Dance Flies)
Subfamily Empidinae
Genus Rhamphomyia
Species luteiventris (Rhamphomyia luteiventris)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Rhamphomyia luteiventris Loew, 1864
Identification
Loew's description (translated from Latin using Google translate):
"Head dark gray, eyes contiguous. Antennae slender, black, with the first two short black-hairy joints, the second except the brown base, with a slightly short terminal style. Proboscis brown, anterior hips slightly longer. The chest is gray, opaque, with three old-fashioned black ribbons, with rare black hair and setae. Scutellum concolor. Abdomen above black, glossy, on both sides and below pale yellow.
Hypopygium moderate, black, ringing, subovate with intermediate lamellae. the upper ones obtuse, lanceolate, outstretched, all black-hairy, with a central yellow filament, thin, winding, almost non-broken at the base. Feet and hips pale yellowish, black-hairy; the front legs become somewhat brown at the apex; the hind legs except the base and the ankle are all black. Halteres pale yellowish white. Wings gray, veins dark brown, brownish stigma. — (New Hampshire; Osten-Sacken)
Note. It differs from Rhamphomyia with a pale belly, more diluted hips, and contiguous eyes."
Range
ON-NB, south to VA (1)
Works Cited
1.A Catalog of the Diptera of America North of Mexico
Alan Stone, et al. 1965. United States Department of Agriculture.