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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Carnoidea » Frit Flies (Chloropidae) » Grass Flies (Chloropinae) » Ectecephala » Ectecephala albistylum
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Chloropidae, Ectecephala sp. - Ectecephala albistylum
Copyright © 2009 MJ Hatfield

Chloropidae, Ectecephala sp. - Ectecephala albistylum
Ringgold County, Iowa, USA
June 10, 2008
Size: 4+ mm
Sweep net of pasture/grassland for the ISU/Iowa DNR Patch, Burn, Graze project.

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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 22 February, 2009 - 10:37pm
Last updated 7 March, 2014 - 3:32pm

Moved
Moved from Ectecephala.
… Keith Bayless, 6 January, 2012 - 10:41am login or register to post comments

E. albistylum
Seeing the palpi would really help here. Using Sabrosky 1941, by the shape and size of the last antennal segment, I'd suggest this is E. albistylum. It looks like you kept the specimen back then; if you still have it, check the colour of the palpi. If they are yellowish, it pretty much confirms the ID, unless this is a species that was not known to science back then. If the palpi are black, this is rather E. laticornis.

Nice specimen in any case.
… Yann Gobeil, 5 January, 2012 - 4:50pm login or register to post comments

 
Finally,
I was able to check. The palpi are yellowish.
… MJ Hatfield, 30 March, 2012 - 7:16pm login or register to post comments

 
The specimen is with
Dr. Debinski at ISU. I may be able to take a look at it in March. I will try.
… MJ Hatfield, 6 January, 2012 - 11:00am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Chloropinae. the additional photos make me more confident that this is genus Ectecephala, thanks for contributing. the antenna shape, the shape of the head laterally, and the shape of the ocellar triangle are distinctive for this genus.
… Keith Bayless, 25 February, 2009 - 12:55am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies. something like Ectecephala; probably a genus we don't have in the guide but I can't ID it for sure from these shots. i need the head, wing, thorax dorsally
… Keith Bayless, 23 February, 2009 - 1:01pm login or register to post comments

 
I don't have the chemicals to
I don't have the chemicals to dry flies nicely, they always shrivel up, so I have to keep them in alcohol. I'll see what I can do on the photos. Thanks!
… MJ Hatfield, 23 February, 2009 - 3:26pm login or register to post comments

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