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Picture-winged fly - Euxesta - female
Copyright © 2009 Lynn Bergen

Picture-winged fly - Euxesta - Female
Baiting Hollow, Suffolk County, New York, USA
October 4, 2009
Size: about 3mm
Wings scissor motion, stomping front legs.

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Picture-winged fly - Euxesta - female Picture-winged fly with bubble - Euxesta - female
Contributed by Lynn Bergen on 4 October, 2009 - 10:01pm
Last updated 22 January, 2014 - 6:54pm

Probably Euxesta notata
Probably Euxesta notata.
… John F. Carr, 22 January, 2014 - 6:55pm

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… Lynn Bergen, 4 October, 2009 - 11:50pm

Not an expert but
it appears to be genus Euxesta, in the family Ulidiidae, or picture-winged flies
… John Schneider, 4 October, 2009 - 10:43pm

 
Thanks, John
.
… Lynn Bergen, 4 October, 2009 - 11:55pm

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