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Photo#386711
House Fly? - Symphoromyia - female

House Fly? - Symphoromyia - Female
Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
April 19, 2010
Size: +/- 1/4"

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House Fly? - Symphoromyia - female House Fly? - Symphoromyia

Moved
Moved from Chrysopilus.

Moved
Moved from Snipe Flies.

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Moved from Flies.

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Wing veins
One way to distinguish this from a house fly is to look at the dark veins in the wings. The house fly has a simpler structure. In particular, the house fly and its relatives do not have veins that fork into two nearly parallel veins approaching the wing tip.



For some reason insects started out with very complicated wing veins (look at a dragonfly or mayfly, which still look similar to the earlier flying insects) and got simpler over time.

 
Wing veins
Thanks

not related; something in the Orthorrhapha
[like, a rhagionid... give or take]

 
something in the Orthorrhapha
Thanks

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