spotted fly - Trypetisoma sticticum

Moved

Moved from Fruit Flies.

… Martin Hauser, 1 July, 2009 - 1:24pm

Trypetisoma sticticum

This is a lauxaniid - species is Trypetisoma sticticum (Loew). Nice photos!

… Steve Gaimari, 1 July, 2009 - 1:03pm

AhhhhhhhhI knew something was

AhhhhhhhhI knew something was strange with this one...

… Martin Hauser, 1 July, 2009 - 1:25pm

Thanks John and Ron

for the good suggestions.
I've been looking thorugh them trying to at least find wings that match. I have not yet learned wing anatomy well so I might be missing something there.
I keep going back to Ulidiidae because some of those that are a little similar also hold their wings in the same hyperflexion (I don't know the term entomologists use.)

… Lynn Bergen, 29 June, 2009 - 10:50pm

Another family

Here's another family with similar wing markings.

… John F. Carr, 29 June, 2009 - 9:47pm

Maybe Pseudotephritis

I, too, thought this would be a cakewalk, but the one I was thinking of has differently shaped wings. Next step was "This looks a lot like a fruit fly, i.e. tephritis. So maybe Pseudotephritis fills the bill. Here's one that I think is a slightly different species.

Disclaimer: I'm no expert.

… Ron Hemberger, 29 June, 2009 - 9:36pm

Up and to the left

Try fruit flies, Tephritidae, esp. Tephritinae. I didn't see a match but I did see similar themes.

… John F. Carr, 29 June, 2009 - 9:36pm