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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Tephritoidea » Picture-winged Flies (Ulidiidae) » Otitinae » Cephaliini » Myiomyrmica » Myiomyrmica fenestrata
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Ulidiid - Myiomyrmica fenestrata
Copyright © 2009 Jeff Gruber & UW-Madison Dept. of Entomology

Ulidiid - Myiomyrmica fenestrata
Spring Green Preserve SNA, Sauk County, Wisconsin, USA
September 11, 2001
Size: ~7mm
Alighted on ground, rock outcropping at top of dry bluff prairie.

All pics taken with automontage system. Actual montaging done with CombineZP.

A bright spot on a rather sad day.

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Contributed by Jeff Gruber on 4 February, 2009 - 6:47pm

great find
look at those weird narrowed wings
… Keith Bayless, 11 February, 2009 - 8:17pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Thanks Keith. Yes, quite an interesting looking fly. I have something similar to post soon.
… Jeff Gruber, 12 February, 2009 - 5:38pm login or register to post comments

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