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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Opomyzoidea » Clusiidae » Sobarocephala » Sobarocephala interrupta
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Sobarocephala Fly - Sobarocephala interrupta
Copyright © 2009 Robert Lord Zimlich

Sobarocephala Fly - Sobarocephala interrupta
Mobile (Dog River), Mobile County, Alabama, USA
September 10, 2008
What has very distinctive marks on abdomen, bug-eyed like a ps*cid, pediceled antennae like pl*nthopper and wings like a fly? A Sargus soldier fly is the closest I can get. Perhaps, as Monty Python, something completely different?
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Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 27 December, 2009 - 4:50pm
Last updated 31 October, 2012 - 11:09am

thanks all for this nice addition and help
Moved from Clusiidae.
… v belov, 24 January, 2010 - 11:01am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… Matthias Buck, 14 January, 2010 - 2:23pm login or register to post comments

completely...
i would guess, drosophilid -- but wait for the ones in the know
… v belov, 27 December, 2009 - 5:46pm login or register to post comments

 
I'm not "in the know"
Clusiidae?
… John R. Maxwell, 27 December, 2009 - 9:29pm login or register to post comments

 
Hopefully in the know
The genus is Sobarocephala, and the serrated stripes on the back plus the centrally yellow scutellum means that it is S. interrupta.
… Owen Lonsdale, 23 January, 2010 - 8:28pm login or register to post comments

 
By Jove
I think you're on to something, John. Still, there's those distinctive black marks I haven't found on other specimens.

… Robert Lord Zimlich, 28 December, 2009 - 10:35am login or register to post comments

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