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Small orange fly - Thaumatomyia rubida

Small orange fly - Thaumatomyia rubida
Alameda County, California, USA
May 6, 2010
Size: 3.0 mm bl
On chard leaf, noon.

Moved
Moved from Frit Flies.

Thaumatomyia rubida
Thaumatomyia rubida

Moved
Moved from Flies.

Chloropidae?
Looks like a relative of

 
Maybe an in-law
In coloring, it looks like this one:
, which took three years to get a definite ID. I'll check back in the spring of 2013.

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