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Species Sepedon fuscipennis

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")
Superfamily Sciomyzoidea
Family Sciomyzidae (Marsh Flies, Snail-killing Flies)
Tribe Tetanocerini
Genus Sepedon
Species fuscipennis (Sepedon fuscipennis)
Explanation of Names
Sepedon fuscipennis Loew 1859
Identification
Antennae with a laterally flattened pedicel (the long part of the antenna).
Range
NA (NF-AK to FL-CA)(1)
Food
larvae feed only on aquatic pulmonate snails