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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Tephritoidea » Fruit Flies (Tephritidae) » Tephritinae » Eutretini » Paracantha » Paracantha culta
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Paracantha, male - Paracantha culta - male
Copyright © 2009 Andrew Williams

Paracantha, male - Paracantha culta - Male
Overland Park, Johnson County, Kansas, USA
July 31, 2009
Paracantha

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Contributed by Andrew Williams on 3 August, 2009 - 7:59am
Last updated 4 August, 2009 - 5:37pm

Moved
Moved from Paracantha.
… Martin Hauser, 4 August, 2009 - 5:02pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Martin Hauser, 4 August, 2009 - 4:01pm login or register to post comments

 
P. gentilis ?
Hi Martin, I had another Paracantha from same city ID'd as P. gentilis. There are notes under this image. Do you agree, or is this the specimen above a different species? Also, wanted to be sure that lack of orange "tail" equals female, tail equals male.

… Andrew Williams, 4 August, 2009 - 4:11pm login or register to post comments

 
Sorry I was a bit lazy to che
Sorry I was a bit lazy to check on the species level... but it turns out to be culta. and the long tails are the ovipositor, making the one females, while the males have the short abdomen...nice pics!
… Martin Hauser, 4 August, 2009 - 5:01pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks for ID + question about the other pics
Is Paracantha I sent you the thumbnail for (Photo#308819) correctly ID'd as P.gentilis? both sets of pics were taken in the same city, and I took a bunch more Paracantha images in a 3rd location yesterday, not yet posted. Is there a chart online of the different Paracantha wing patterns that I could refer to?
… Andrew Williams, 4 August, 2009 - 5:29pm login or register to post comments

 
it is also culta, it is not o
it is also culta, it is not only the wings, it is also the head and the leg coloration....and I have no idea if there is something online, but I wish there would...
… Martin Hauser, 4 August, 2009 - 5:45pm login or register to post comments

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