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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Empidoidea » Longlegged Flies (Dolichopodidae) » Neurigoninae » Dactylomyia » Dactylomyia lateralis
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Unknown Long-legged Fly - Dactylomyia lateralis
Copyright © 2009 Jon Hart

Unknown Long-legged Fly - Dactylomyia lateralis
Montrose, Laurens County, Georgia, USA
December 6, 2009
Size: less than 5mm
I looked around but couldn't quite match it up to something. I realize one photo ain't a lot, but can it be ID'd?
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Contributed by Jon Hart on 10 December, 2009 - 9:16pm
Last updated 18 January, 2014 - 8:06pm

Moved
Moved from Neurigoninae.
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Moved
Moved from Longlegged Flies.
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Moved from Flies.
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Upright?
Is the angle of the picture correct? Medetera likes to perch like that head-up on tree trunks.
… John F. Carr, 11 December, 2009 - 6:57am login or register to post comments

 
I don't know what
I was thinking, John. Yes, the orientation is incorrect. It was facing up the trunk of an oak. Is there some way to turn this photo clockwise in the Edit section? As to Medetera, I have only seen one particular species of it, so I don't know if there are others that match this fly. One reason I didn't think it belonged there was that the legs on this fly are smooth as glass and the coloring is all wrong.
… Jon Hart, 11 December, 2009 - 6:08pm login or register to post comments

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