Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
 

Register · Log In
HomeGuideID RequestRecentFrassForumsDonateHelp
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar
Upcoming Events

Registration is open for the 2024 BugGuide gathering in Idaho July 24-27

Moth submissions from National Moth Week 2023

Photos of insects and people from the 2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico, July 20-24

Photos of insects and people from the Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana, April 28-May 2

Photos of insects and people from the 2019 gathering in Louisiana, July 25-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2018 gathering in Virginia, July 27-29


Previous events
TaxonomyBrowseInfoImagesLinksBooksData
Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Sciomyzoidea » Thick-headed Flies (Conopidae) » Conopinae » Physoconops » Subgenus Pachyconops (Physoconops Subgenus Pachyconops) » Physoconops brachyrhynchus
Photo#305509
Thick-headed Fly - Physoconops brachyrhynchus
Copyright © 2009 Marvin Smith

Thick-headed Fly - Physoconops brachyrhynchus
Ozark Mountains, Searcy County, Arkansas, USA
July 15, 2009
On Slender Mountain Mint
tag · login or register to post comments
Contributed by Marvin Smith on 17 July, 2009 - 2:21am
Last updated 5 July, 2018 - 12:17am

Moved
Moved from Physoconops bulbirostris.
… Aaron Schusteff, 5 July, 2018 - 12:17am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Subgenus Pachyconops.
… Aaron Schusteff, 1 December, 2016 - 10:08pm login or register to post comments

 
How would one tell this apart
How would one tell this apart from P. brachyrhynchus?
… Even Dankowicz, 7 June, 2018 - 9:50am login or register to post comments

 
I think I erred, this indeed appears to be P. brachyrhynchus
The main character diagnostic character visible here is the amount of black on the frons...which I mistook to be entire in this oblique view, whereas on closer examination it appears to significantly grade into "pale" laterally, as in P. brachyrhynchus.

Two characters that can help separate P. bulbirostris and P. brachyrhynchus are: cheek color (entirely white in brachyrhynchus vs. brown-to-black posteriorly for bulbirostris); and the extent of the pollinose pleural stripe (which is restricted to the lower half of the pleura in bulbirostris). But neither of those characters can be discerned in a dorsal view like this one.
… Aaron Schusteff, 5 July, 2018 - 12:17am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Physoconops.
… Aaron Schusteff, 13 January, 2014 - 12:55am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Physoconops.
… Keith Bayless, 26 August, 2011 - 2:39pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Thick-headed Flies.
… Keith Bayless, 26 August, 2011 - 2:39pm login or register to post comments

Comment viewing options
Select your preferred way to display the comments and click 'Save settings' to activate your changes.

Disclaimer: Dedicated naturalists volunteer their time and resources here to provide this service. We strive to provide accurate information, but we are mostly just amateurs attempting to make sense of a diverse natural world. If you need expert professional advice, contact your local extension office.

Contributors own the copyright to and are solely responsible for contributed content.
Click the contributor's name for licensing and usage information.
Everything else copyright © 2003-2024 Iowa State University, unless otherwise noted.

Bugguide is hosted by:

Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology at Iowa State University logo

Printer Friendly Version 		Terms of Use
Privacy Statement
Site Map
Contact