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Fly - Meromyza

Fly - Meromyza
Elkton, Douglas County, Oregon, USA
September 15, 2009
Size: 3 - 4mm
On bee box, amid blackberries. This little fellow must do a lot of leg squats to have thighs that big.

Moved
Moved from Flies.

anthomyzid?
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anthomyzid
It does have the correct general appearance, but in looking through the guide, I couldn't find any that had the same wing venation, the same pattern on the back of the thorax and especially the huge rear thighs. Could this be a specimen not yet posted in BG? Or possibly something else?

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